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Talmud Daily

Talmud Daily

18Forty Team 16 episodes Nov 10, 2026

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 57: Who We Are and Who We’re Becoming
Day 57: Who We Are and Who We’re Becoming Nov 10, 2026 12:32 Day 57 | Rosh Hashanah Some days we feel full. Other days we see only a sliver of ourselves. Jewish time makes room for both. 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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas
Day 56: How the Jewish Calendar Became a Guinness World Record
Day 56: How the Jewish Calendar Became a Guinness World Record Nov 9, 2026 10:22 Day 56 | Rosh HashanahTwelve lunar months leave us about eleven days short of a solar year. What do we do with those eleven days?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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ide
Day 55: Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky: Learning in My Rebbe’s Voice
Day 55: Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky: Learning in My Rebbe’s Voice Nov 6, 2026 38:52 Day 55 | Beitzah Nearly thirty years after ninth grade, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin reunites with the rebbe whose voice he still hears when he learns 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.Send us your questions, reactions,
Day 54: Where I Am or Where I Come From?
Day 54: Where I Am or Where I Come From? Nov 5, 2026 13:33 Day 54 | Beitzah Jews in the diaspora once kept two days of Yom Tov because word of the new moon could take weeks to reach them. Why do we still keep both?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.Send us your questions, reactio
Day 53: A Taste of Two Futures
Day 53: A Taste of Two Futures Nov 4, 2026 9:47 Day 53 | BeitzahWhy can we cook on Yom Tov but not on Shabbos? The answer lies in the future each holy day invites us to taste.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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas
Day 52: Half for God, Half for You
Day 52: Half for God, Half for You Nov 3, 2026 9:13 Day 52 | BeitzahMaking room for God and making room for others begin at the same Yom Tov table.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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at talmuddaily@18forty.org. We
Day 51: An Egg’s Potential, a Holy Day’s Promise
Day 51: An Egg’s Potential, a Holy Day’s Promise Nov 2, 2026 12:44 Day 51 | BeitzahFresh food, a phone set aside, and the possibility of discovering something new about ourselves. Tractate Beitzah explores how we make room for a holy day.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.Send us your qu
Day 50: Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: Finding Joy in a Fragile World
Day 50: Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: Finding Joy in a Fragile World Oct 30, 2026 32:25 Day 50: SukkahRabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel explores how the sukkah teaches us to hold grief and blessing in the same hands, and find joy within life’s uncertainty.Editor’s Note: Toward the end of the podcast, we experienced some technical difficulties that interfered with the audio quality of the podcast. We apologize for the inconvenience.Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor a
Day 49: Two Messiahs, One Redemption
Day 49: Two Messiahs, One Redemption Oct 29, 2026 10:58 Day 49 | SukkahMashiach ben Yosef builds the infrastructure of redemption. Mashiach ben David restores its soul. The Jewish future needs both.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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreem
Day 48: The Beauty We Bring to Torah
Day 48: The Beauty We Bring to Torah Oct 28, 2026 9:28 Day 48 | SukkahFrom the Shabbos table to the Torah we teach, Jewish life deserves our creativity and care.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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at talmuddaily@18for
Day 47: Rebuilding the Sukkah of David
Day 47: Rebuilding the Sukkah of David Oct 27, 2026 13:41 Day 47 | Sukkah From Avraham’s 318 servants to the boards in our garage, a lesson in living beyond despair.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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at talmuddaily@18fo
Day 46: Creation, Revelation, Redemption
Day 46: Creation, Revelation, Redemption Oct 26, 2026 11:37 Day 46 | SukkahWhy do we leave our homes for a sukkah five days after Yom Kippur? What, exactly, are we celebrating?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.Send us your questions, reactions, disagreements, and ideas at talmudd

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