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Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 14, launches a meditation on vows, intentions, sleep, and speech. Commemorating the second yahrzeit of the late, great Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, we bring a sermon of his that addresses these very subjects. How can the things we say and don't say transform our reality? Listen and find out.To learn more about the annual Day of Learning in Rabbi Sacks's memory, click here.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 12 and 13, offer a moving meditation on the significance of anniversaries. Why do we bother with birthdays? Why light candles annually to commemorate the passing of a loved one? And what spiritual energy is unleashed on an anniversary that is not available on any other day of the year? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 10 and 11, warns us against taking unnecessary vows and practicing needless restraint. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about boundaries, and how different people struggle with different temptations in different ways. Is there a good way to deny yourself pleasure? Or is it always wrong? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 9, gives us a master class in personal productivity. Stephanie Butnick joins us to explain why Hillel the Elder was a model for all multitaskers to emulate, and share her own intricate, and Talmudically-inspired, system of maximum efficiency at the office. What's the Gmail Gemara, and why should you study it carefully? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 8, helps us find some inspiration to do good deeds. Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone joins us to talk about the Hakhel, an ancient tradition that brought all Jews together to hear the King read the Torah. Why is it still relevant today, particularly this year? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 7, kicks things off with an amusing story about a man who spoke in a confusing way leading his peers to be uncertain which room he had designated to be the bathroom. It's a strange little anecdote, but it eerily recalls one of Soviet history's most beloved tales, about the time Stalin's confusion led to the building of a monstrosity right in the heart of Moscow. How did the Hotel Moskva come to have two completely different designs in one building? And what does that teach us about making sure we speak very clearly? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 5 and 6, warn us that if you don't speak your mind clearly, it's like you never spoke your mind at all. But how to speak and write well? How to make sure we're always understood? For advice, we turn to an unearthed gem, a 1978 commencement speech by the late William Safire, Richard Nixon's speechwriter and longtime columnist for The New York Times. What advice does he have on how to make sure we're never misunderstood? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Sign up today for Shema: The Practice of Sacred Listening at JewishSpirituality.org. Registration closes on November 11. 

Today’s Talmud pages, Nedarim 3 and 4, dive right into the question of a special category of vow: The Nazirite Vow. Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to explain what this unique vow is, why the rabbis opposed it, and why one Nazir in particular became the Bible's great action hero and inspired everyone from Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass. Who is that powerful man of mystery, and why are we still obsessed with him despite his weird vows? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Nedarim 2, introduces us to a new tractate that’s all about words and why they matter. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us with a preview of what to expect, and a meditation on why it's so important to make sure we all understand one another. What makes Nedarim one of the Talmud's most challenging and fascinating tractates? 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 and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Talmud page, Ketubot 112, brings us to the end of Tractate Ketubot. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to recap what we’ve learned, and what powerful lessons the tractate still offers us today. Why do so many Jews hang their ketubot on the wall? Listen and find out.You can read Rabbi Bashevkin's essay on the conclusion of Tractate Ketubot.Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.