Talmud Daily
Talmud Daily is a podcast designed as an accessible daily learning program centered on the Talmud and Jewish texts. It offers ten-minute episodes Monday through Thursday, with a longer Friday interview for deeper exploration. The show requires no Hebrew knowledge, aiming to make Talmud study approachable for a broad audience. The program runs for forty weeks and concludes alongside the global Jewish community at Siyum HaShas. More resources are available at talmuddaily.org.
Episodes
Day 38: A Half-Shekel, a Whole People
Day 38 | Shekalim Why does the Torah insist that rich and poor give the exact same amount?Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at
Day 37: The Jewish People as a Living Whole
Day 37 | Shekalim Today's learning is sponsored by Roger in Seattle in memory of his beloved wife Jane. Tractate Shekalim asks what it means to bind ourselves to something larger than ourselves.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to lea
Day 36: Shekalim: The Tractate That Wasn’t Supposed to Be Here
Day 36 | ShekalimThe Talmud Bavli never had a tractate Shekalim. So how did it end up in ours?Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and idea
Day 35: Rabbanit Sally Mayer: Turning the Jewish Home Into an Altar
Day 35 | PesachimFrom the Korban Pesach to removing chametz, Pesach turns ordinary domestic space into sacred space.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, d
Day 34: The Haggadah as Jewish Memory
Day 34 | PesachimFrom the Korban Pesach to Maggid, the Seder shows how Jewish memory adapts without losing its past.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, d
Day 33: The Stories We Carry
Day 33 | PesachimTo know who we are, we need to know the generations that came before us.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at
Day 32: A People Born in Bondage
Day 32 | PesachimWhy does God answer Avraham’s question about Jewish continuity with a promise of slavery?Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreemen
Day 31: A Family Becomes a Nation
Day 31 | PesachimThe Korban Pesach transformed a collection of families into the Jewish people.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ide
Day 30: Rabbi Micha Shotkin: The Rabbi Who Builds Eruvin
Day 30 | Eruvin The laws of eruvin can feel out of reach. Rabbi Micha Shotkin builds them into the streets where we live.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactio
Day 29: The Eruv Wars
Day 29 | Eruvin The laws of Eruvin often lead to sharp and harsh disagreements within communities. But maybe that is the point. This episode is sponsored by Daniel and Jamie Schwartz in memory of לע״נ חיים אלטר בן משה דוד.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily
Day 28: A Wall Made of Doorways
Day 28 | Moed Eruvin teaches us to notice our boundaries and invite others inside. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at talmud
Day 27: The Boundaries of Truth
Day 27 | Eruvin The Talmud teaches us how competing perspectives can become part of the same sacred conversation.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disa
Day 26: The Boundaries That Bring Us Together
Day 26 | EruvinJewish community is built not by putting up walls, but by creating doorways.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas a
Day 25: Shalom Rosner: How Shabbos Entered the Modern World
Day 25 | Shabbos What electricity, cholent, and the Israeli army teach us about applying ancient laws to modern life.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions,
Day 24: The Shabbos We Inherited
Day 24 | ShabbosWhat happens when Jewish practice can no longer simply be passed down?Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at tal
Day 23: The Secret Ingredients of Shabbos
Day 23 | ShabbosCommunity, preparation, and acceptance transform Shabbos from a set of restrictions into a way of life.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions
Day 22: Finding God Outside the Cave
Day 22 | ShabbosShabbos teaches us that holiness is found not by escaping ordinary life, but by transforming it.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disag
Day 21: Shabbos: The Temple in Time
Day 21 | ShabbosHow the Talmud transforms 39 categories of prohibited work into a shared experience of sacred time.Scheduling Note: In observance of Yom Kippur, Talmud Daily will be on hiatus on Monday, September 21. Rabbi Bashevkin will return with a new episode on Tuesday, September 22.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Tal
Day 20: Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: The Talmud as a Timeless Machine
Day 20 | BrachosJewish time is about more than clocks and calendars. Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz explains how halacha gives purpose to our days—and how Talmud connects us across generations.This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into t
Day 19: The Siddur Wasn’t Written in a Day
Day 19 | BrachosJewish prayer developed over centuries. But its central challenge remains the same: finding words for God when God seems absent.This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous.Today's learning is sponsored by Rudiger Laufhutte in honor of Judi (Gershona) Laufhutte.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily
Day 18: The Divine Is in the Details
Day 18 | BrachosJewish blessings train us to move beyond general gratitude and recognize the particular gifts before us.This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous.Today's learning is sponsored by Sue Rokaw in memory of her husband, Alan Test, on his birthday.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyon
Day 17: Blessings, Dreams, and Exile
Day 17 | BrachosLife can feel like a dream whose meaning is difficult to decipher. Berakhot offers an interpretation one blessing at a time.This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more
Day 16: The Talmud’s Unwritten Introduction
Day 16 | BrachosWhile the Talmud begins without a preface, its opening question may tell us everything we need to know about its larger project.This week's learning is sponsored by anonymous.Today's learning is sponsored by Judah & Ora Mischel in honor of The Bashevkin Family.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Dail
Day 15: Ari Bergmann: How the Talmud Went from Conversation to Canon
Day 15 | FoundationsHow did generations of oral debate become Judaism’s foundational text? Ari Bergmann tells the story of how the Talmud became the Talmud.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Fo
Day 14: The Rambam, Categorizer-in-Chief
Day 14 | FoundationsThe Rambam tried to distill the Talmud into one organized system. But instead of ending the conversation, he created an entirely new chapter of Torah study.Today’s learning is sponsored by Roger of Seattle in memory of Jane.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a ded
Day 13: How to Choose Your Talmud
Day 13 | FoundationsChoosing the right edition can make the Talmud far more accessible. But the real breakthrough comes when its unfamiliar words stop looking like obstacles and start becoming signposts.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click he
Day 12: The Body and Soul of the Talmud
Today's learning is sponsored by The Canter Family in memory of M. Kenneth Canter - Moshe Koppel Ben Yehoshua v’ Sarah Dinah.Day 12 | FoundationsWhat are we actually doing when we study Talmud? Meet three essential approaches—halacha, aggadta, and lomdus—and discover how each illuminates the others.Today's learning is sponsored by the Canter Family in memory of M. Kenneth Canter - Moshe Koppel Ben
Day 11: Choose Time
Day 11 | FoundationsThe structure of the Talmud teaches us not only to organize Torah, but to sanctify time.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Talmud Daily and 18Forty:Send us your questions, reactions, disagreem
Day 10: Michelle Margolis: How the Talmud Went from Parchment to Pixels
Day 10 | FoundationsIn this episode of Talmud Daily: Voices, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin speaks with Michelle Margolis, the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University, about the remarkable story of how the Talmud became the book we recognize today.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for
Day 9: The Two Sides of the Talmud
Day 9 | FoundationsOne explains the Talmud line by line. The other connects its most distant conversations. Together, Rashi and Tosfot taught generations how to learn Gemara.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here to learn more.Get More Tal
Day 8: A Symposium of Generations
Day 8 | FoundationsFrom the Mishnah to Rashi to Rabbi Akiva Eiger, every page of Talmud brings generations of Jewish learning into a single conversation.Today's learning is sponsored by Anonymous in memory of Aharon Ben Nazlie and Tzvi Ben YehoshuaPut Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a
Day 7: The Doodles of the Gemara
Day 7 | FoundationsSome parts of life are written for us. Others are ours to interpret. Today's learning is sponsored by Yael Laifer in memory of Raizel Devora bat Menachem Mendel on her 24th yahrzeit.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication into the daily learning. Click here
Day 6: The Torah We Read and the Torah We Live
Day 6 | FoundationsThe Torah has always been more than a written text. Jewish tradition lives in the relationship between the words we read and the Oral Torah that teaches us how to live them.Today's learning is sponsored by anonymous.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Daily free for everyone and carries a dedication i
Day 5: Liel Leibovitz: Why the Talmud Is So Hard to Love—and Worth Loving
Day 5 | Foundations Liel Leibovitz reflects on falling in love with the Talmud precisely because it is so difficult—and on how its questions, frustrations, and intricate details can transform the way we live. This week's learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren. Today's learning is sponsored by Daniel and Jessica Courtney in memory of Dr. Stuart A. Court
Day 4: The Talmud on Trial—Why a Book Became a Target
Day 4 | FoundationsFor centuries, enemies of the Jewish people have targeted the Talmud because it represents far more than a book—it is the foundation of a distinctly Jewish way of life.This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren.Today’s learning is sponsored by an anonymous friend.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tr
Day 3: Make Torah Sweet
Day 3 | FoundationsEvery morning, we pray that Torah should be sweet. But sweetness alone is not enough.This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren.Today’s learning is sponsored by anonymous in memory of Clara and Samuel Siegel, Jacob and Ettl Valins, Martin Valins, and Solomon and Inna Gershanok.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day
Day 2: The Broken Tablets
Day 2 | FoundationsWhen Moshe shattered the first tablets, he set the stage for a new kind of Torah. One built through interpretation, argument, and our participation.This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren.Today's learning is sponsored by the Dana Family in honor of Yaakov David ben Ilan Moshe, on his second birthday.Put Your Name on a Day
Day 1: Before the Talmud, There Was a People
Day 1 | FoundationsThe Talmud begins long before its first page, with an eternal conversation passed from generation to generation.This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisberg in honor of their grandchildren.Today’s learning is sponsored by Silvana & Gustavo Rosemblat in honor of Eial, Tamar & Ari.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or
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Forty weeks. Ten minute episodes Monday through Thursday — plus a longer Friday interview if you want to go deeper. No Hebrew required. A daily learning program for the rest of us — ending alongside the global Jewish world at Siyum HaShas.Get the full experience at talmuddaily.org. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a tractate, or give any amount. Every gift keeps Talmud Da
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