Take One Daf Yomi

In today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 38 and 39, we hear that gentiles hold Jews in high regard. Richard Hurowitz, author of In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust, joins us to share some of the lesser-known stories of non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Do we spend more time focusing on the perpetrators than the rescuers? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Gittin 37, the rabbis begin by discussing the definitions of words in a conversation about humility. They follow this up with a discussion of the prosbol, the legal invention of Hillel the Elder which converts individual loans into “loans in the public domain” in order to ensure that the wealthy would continue to lend money in the final years before the sabbatical year. Why are conversations about humility interlinked with one about loans? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Gittin 36, we hear that the rabbis of the Talmud would sign documents with pictorial marks, or what we would call today, emojis. 🤦 To better understand the potential value of emojis, Unorthodox co-host Stephanie Butnick joins us to explore the ways that emojis can be helpful in sharing complicated ideas succinctly. Of all of the emojis one could choose, which is unquestionably the worst? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Gittin 35, we read the story of a widow who curses Rav Huna when he refuses to help her collect payment of her marriage contract or support her and her orphaned children. Rav Huna, it is told, believed in the curse, and so immediately attempted to enact the literal curse in order to save himself; TL;DR, it didn’t work. Curses serve a powerful role in our world, and today we focus on the ways that a certain goat cursed a Chicago baseball team for 71 years. What is the role of curses in America’s pastime? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 33 and 34, we explore the need for a divorce decree to be contingent on the will of the sages. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin returns to explore what is so special about a marriage contract and divorce decree that it must be in accordance with Moshe and the Jewish people when other mitzvot don’t require such stringency. Is the Jewish marriage about the two people involved, or is the larger community a part? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 31 and 32, we hear the story of two rabbis who are in conversation when they see a quarrelsome person approaching, and have to choose whether to stand to show honor or not. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to teach us more about this cantankerous person, Geneiva, and how his whole story is told throughout the tractate. What can we learn from the story of Geneiva? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

In today’s Talmud page, Gittin 30, the rabbis offer a starting bit of legal advice: if a man has done more than can reasonably expected to appease his wife their bill of divorce can be null and void. What does it mean for contemporary couples in trouble? Could the rabbis help one beloved TV and movie star? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Gittin 29, discusses the transitive property of witnesses when it comes to proving the validity of a divorce decree within Israel, and how each subsequent agent takes responsibility from the previous. Unorthodox co-host Joshua Malina joins us to share his experiences on stage and screen in taking over roles from previous actors. What does he keep and what does he makes his own from previous actors? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Gittin 28, discusses the death penalty in foreign lands, and whether one should assume that a person has been killed if sentenced to death. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explore why this issue is an important factor in relation to the rules of divorce. How have rabbis, ancient and modern, tried to gain clarity on this topic? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 26 and 27, deliver a stark warning against bureaucracy, warning us not to let overly complicated systems, and the people who run them, take over and drain our most basic exchanges of all soulfulness and meaning. Why does Harvard have one administrator per student these days? Listen and find out.Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Quinn Waller and Elie Bleier. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.