Take One Daf Yomi

Today’s Talmud page, Sotah 29, explores the time between when someone immerses in a mikva in order to purify themselves, and sundown when they become fully ritually pure. This is a lesson to us all about slowing down and becoming more patient for the process of change to occur. How does the speed of Amazon Prime and not eating fruit from a tree for its first three years relate to one another? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Sotah 28, explores the responsibility that men had when it came to infidelity. Producer Josh Kross returns to discuss the changing of gender roles and his experiences being a stay-at-home dad as his children were growing up. He shares the ways that people responded to him when they saw him parenting, and the ways that it has changed over time. Is a father who is taking care of his children in the park just babysitting? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Sotah 27 explores the limitations of the rules when it comes to those who have disabilities. Rabbi Shari Chen of Hebrew Seminary: A Rabbinical School for Deaf & Hearing, a rabbinical school for the deaf, joins us to discuss the ways that rituals are changed to make them accessible to the deaf in order to make a more inclusive Jewish community. How does changing prayer language create a more welcoming home for all? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud pages, Sotah 25 and 26 explore three different familial relationships, spousal, parental, and filial. We explore the ways that forgiveness is given in each of these relationships, and what that says about the core importance of the relationships themselves. Is a child forgiven in a different way than a spouse? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud pages, Sotah 23 and 24 explore the response to a woman who confesses infidelity, or just refuses to drink the Sotah waters. We are joined by Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin who shares a way to reframe the ritual from that of a punishment towards one of mending a relationship. Can the Sotah ritual be seen as a path towards reconciliation? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Sotah 22 kicks things off by telling us how important it is not only to be learned but also to work well with others. As Israel enters its fifteenth week of popular protest we are joined by Mark Oppenheimer and Stephanie Butnick to discuss how the political situation is rooted not only in century old questions about Zionism but also in the more ancient question of what it means to live Jewishly. Is the point of Israel to be a Jewish state of a state for Jews? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Sotah 21, shares a parable of a man walking in the dark unsure of where he is and what is out there that can hurt him. The rabbis explore how mitzvot and Torah can serve as a light to help him find his way. Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner also explore this idea in their film Lincoln. What did Americas sixteenth president think about relying too heavily on a compass? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Sotah 20, introduces the idea that a woman who has learned Torah can delay the effects of the cursed waters. Producer Robert Scaramuccia shares his interview with Alexandra Casser, one of only a few female Torah scribes in America. What is it like to be so intimately connected to the Torah, letter by letter? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud pages, Sotah 18 and 19, discuss the question of whether sotah ceremony scrolls can be prepared in advance or must be created individually for each woman. This can lead us to consider the larger topic of the written word and reading in general. What can we learn from French novelist Marcel Proust on the question? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud pages, Sotah 16 and 17, discuss the presence of the devine in the marital relationship. As a special treat, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin shares with us a segment of his podcast 18Forty in which Liel Leibovits and his wife Lisa Ann Sandel discuss their marriage and how a change in one of their religious observances impacted the other, and their relationship. How does a change in one person impact their partner? 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, Mark Oppenheimer, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.