Take One Daf Yomi

Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 84, teaches us that while charity is a necessity, the specific cause we support is our choice. Hudson Leibovitz, age 9, joins us to talk about his habit of donating to charity every year on Hanukkah, and share some pointers about selecting the most deserving cause to support. Is there such a thing as a fish shelter? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 82 and 83, talks about the ways in which we grieve? Tablet Magazine's Tanya Singer joins us to discuss the ways that she works through the grief that she experienced and continues to experience after the recent loss of her father. Is it a question of whether you grieve, or just a question of how? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 80 and 81, deliver a strange pronouncement: Torah scholars are almost never the sons of other Torah scholars. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain this idea, and how the rabbis excelled in checking their privilege and making sure no one gets an unfair advantage when it comes to studying Torah. Did the Talmud discover the original Nepo Babies? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 79, urges us to reflect on the choices we make when we vow not to eat this food or that. Rabbi Shuli Passow joins us to talk about her custom, inspired by one of the greatest rabbis in modern times, to refrain from eating meat during the week but consume it on Shabbat. Can you be a part-time vegetarian? And why did a major New York synagogue decide to boycott lox? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 78, raises a question familiar to many a married couple: How long are you allowed to annoy your spouse? Mark Oppenheimer, the Corduroy Rav himself, joins us to discuss the ways in which spouses annoy one another and asks if it has been the same throughout time, and all over the world. How long is too long for you to hold on to this type of annoyance? Listen to find out.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, Nedarim 77, brings up that most stinging of human emotions, regret. Rabbi Gabi Weinberg, the start-up rabbi, joins us to discuss why so many stories of successful companies focus on the regrets of those who failed to recognize their potential early on. How, then, should we approach regret constructively without succumbing to sorrow and paralysis? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 75 and 76, teach us that time is elastic, a unit of measuring change. How did the Talmud capture the central themes behind one of television's most successful science fiction shows? And what can the rabbis and our most famous time traveler teach us about seizing the day? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 73 and 74, teach us a lesson about illeism, or the practice of speaking about yourself in the third person. Why did the rabbis favor this type of rhetoric? And what does modern psychology confirm about its benefits to being better listeners and friends? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 72, raises the very modern problem of being too distracted to remember what it is you've heard and what it was that you were supposed to do. Producer Robert Scaramuccia joins us to talk about his own attention span, and how it was impacted after suffering a serious concussion recently. Did the rabbis have some wisdom that could help an overwhelmed millennial recovering from brain injury? Listen and find out.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, Nedarim 71, asks the thorny question of just how final is divorce. Tablet Editor in Chief Alana Newhouse joins us to discuss what saying goodbye really means, and how the Talmud's concept of marriage may be radically different, and more soulful, than our own. What did the Talmud's rabbis teach Mrs. Doubtfire? Listen and find out.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.