Talking Talmud
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Sanhedrin 72: A Homeowner's Defense
20 mins; February 26, 2025
Sanhedrin 71: Narrowing the Possibility of a Ben Sorer u-Moreh
17 mins; February 25, 2025
Sanhedrin 70: Wine That Gladdens, Wine That Destroys
23 mins; February 25, 2025
Sanhedrin 69: The Very Young Generations of King David's Family
21 mins; February 24, 2025
Sanhedrin 68: The Loss of Rabbi Eliezer
25 mins; February 22, 2025
Sanhedrin 67: How the Frog Covered the Land of Egypt
22 mins; February 21, 2025
Sanhedrin 66: The Death Sentence of the Betrothed Adulteress
16 mins; February 20, 2025
Sanhedrin 65: How Do You Prove That Shabbat Is Shabbat?
17 mins; February 19, 2025
Sanhedrin 64: The Propensity of People to Do Evil
16 mins; February 18, 2025
Sanhedrin 63: Pronouncing the Names of Idolatries
17 mins; February 18, 2025
Sanhedrin 62: Violations while Unaware: Shabbat and Idolatry
17 mins; February 17, 2025
Sanhedrin 61: Idolatry Loopholes: Intent and Practice
22 mins; February 15, 2025
Sanhedrin 60: Casual Blasphemy, a Historical, Habitual Practice
12 mins; February 14, 2025
Sanhedrin 59: Not the Sciatic Nerve or a Limb from a Live Animal
17 mins; February 14, 2025
Sanhedrin 58: How Violence Destroys Holiness
13 mins; February 12, 2025
Sanhedrin 57: Can a Non-Jew Be Subject to Jewish Law?
18 mins; February 11, 2025
Sanhedrin 56: Blessing God: The Need for Euphemism
19 mins; February 10, 2025
Sanhedrin 55: The Role of Shame
22 mins; February 09, 2025
Sanhedrin 54: 'In the Way One Lies with a Woman'
12 mins; February 08, 2025
Sanhedrin 53: Stoning or Sin-Offerings
15 mins; February 07, 2025
Sanhedrin 52: Dignity Even in Being Put to Death
20 mins; February 07, 2025
Sanhedrin 51: The Bad End of the Kohen's Daughter
17 mins; February 05, 2025
Sanhedrin 50: Why Ranking the Severity of the 4 Executions Matters
20 mins; February 05, 2025
Sanhedrin 49: A Hierarchy of Deaths
18 mins; February 03, 2025
Sanhedrin 48: Kingly vs. Courtly Executions
16 mins; February 02, 2025
Sanhedrin 47: The Curative Graves of the Sages
17 mins; February 01, 2025
Sanhedrin 46: From the Executed to the Mourners
15 mins; January 31, 2025
Sanhedrin 45: Even the Worst Sinner Is Human
19 mins; January 30, 2025
Sanhedrin 44: Brazen before God
19 mins; January 29, 2025
Sanhedrin 43: Confessions
17 mins; January 28, 2025
Sanhedrin 42: Acquittal and Convicted
15 mins; January 27, 2025
Sanhedrin 41: The Women Who Knew Halakhah
15 mins; January 26, 2025
Sanhedrin 40: The Importance of Witnesses
16 mins; January 25, 2025
Sanhedrin 39: The Comeuppance of the Wicked: What Does God Think?
24 mins; January 24, 2025
Sanhedrin 38: What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?
14 mins; January 24, 2025
Sanhedrin 37: The Goodness of the Jewish People
20 mins; January 22, 2025
Sanhedrin 36: A Hierarchy of Judges - and Torah Scholars
16 mins; January 22, 2025
Sanhedrin 35: Competing, Contradictory Mitzvot - Which Wins?
20 mins; January 21, 2025
Sanhedrin 34: A Blind Judge
19 mins; January 20, 2025
Sanhedrin 33: Default Innocence
16 mins; January 19, 2025
Sanhedrin 32: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue
21 mins; January 18, 2025
Sanhedrin 31: New Evidence
17 mins; January 17, 2025
Sanhedrin 30: Combined Testimony
19 mins; January 16, 2025
Sanhedrin 29: Witness Hazing - But in a Good Way
15 mins; January 15, 2025
Sanhedrin 28: Yevamot for Witnesses
15 mins; January 14, 2025
Sanhedrin 27: Disqualified for Being Family
19 mins; January 13, 2025
Sanhedrin 26: Wrinkles in Intercalating the Year
20 mins; January 12, 2025
Sanhedrin 25: Interest and Pigeons
16 mins; January 11, 2025
Sanhedrin 24: Respect, Disrespect, and Disqualifiers
27 mins; January 10, 2025
Sanhedrin 23: Judge Selection
16 mins; January 09, 2025
Sanhedrin 22: Matchmaking and the King's Coiffure
22 mins; January 08, 2025
Sanhedrin 21: The Pitfalls of Knowing Reasons for the Mitzvot
18 mins; January 07, 2025
Sanhedrin 20: Moral Paragons
20 mins; January 06, 2025
Sanhedrin 19: Challenges of Raising Children
21 mins; January 05, 2025
Sanhedrin 18: Limitations on Who Can Be a Judge
14 mins; January 04, 2025
Sanhedrin 17: The Odd Verdict in a Unanimous Vote to Convict
17 mins; January 03, 2025
Sanhedrin 16: The Court of 71
16 mins; January 02, 2025
Sanhedrin 15: Judge the Snake with 23
13 mins; January 01, 2025
Sanhedrin 14: Rabbi Yehudah ben Bava and Rabbinic Authority
20 mins; December 31, 2024
Sanhedrin 13: Seasons in Their Time
14 mins; December 30, 2024
Sanhedrin 12: Rome's Impact on the Calendar
21 mins; December 29, 2024
Sanhedrin 11: Sages: Pious and Human
15 mins; December 28, 2024
Sanhedrin 10: Lashes and Leap Months
18 mins; December 27, 2024
Sanhedrin 9: When Is a Monetary Case a Capital Case?
14 mins; December 26, 2024
Sanhedrin 8: A Count of 3
11 mins; December 25, 2024
Sanhedrin 7: Bringing Justice into the World
17 mins; December 24, 2024
Sanhedrin 6: In Praise of Compromise as Blasphemy
15 mins; December 23, 2024
Sanhedrin 5: Eggs, Marsh Water, and Halakhic Leadership (Oh my!)
25 mins; December 22, 2024
Sanhedrin 4: Text vs. Tradition
17 mins; December 21, 2024
Sanhedrin 3: Does the Great Court Need 141 Judges?!
17 mins; December 20, 2024
Sanhedrin 2: The Number of Judges
23 mins; December 19, 2024
Bava Batra 176: A Halakhic Way of Thinking
16 mins; December 18, 2024
Bava Batra 175: The Torah Effect
18 mins; December 17, 2024
Bava Batra 174: Faulty Ethics, or Why 'Poverty Follows the Poor'
23 mins; December 16, 2024
Bava Batra 173: Signing on to Be a Guarantor Is Real
19 mins; December 15, 2024
Bava Batra 172: What to Do about Imprecise Documents
15 mins; December 14, 2024
Bava Batra 171: Shabbat-Dated Documents
15 mins; December 13, 2024
Bava Batra 170: Practical Cases of Contested Loans (plus)
14 mins; December 12, 2024
Bava Batra 169: In the Absence of a Guarantee
10 mins; December 11, 2024
Bava Batra 168: The Selfish Trait of Sodom
12 mins; December 10, 2024
Bava Batra 167: How Far People Go to Commit Fraud
18 mins; December 09, 2024
Bava Batra 166: The Need for Lawyers
17 mins; December 08, 2024
Bava Batra 165: Terms of Agreements
16 mins; December 07, 2024
Bava Batra 164: New Ways of Forging: Erasures and Dates
14 mins; December 06, 2024
Bava Batra 163: Empty Lines Invite Forgery
11 mins; December 05, 2024
Bava Batra 162: Empty Space
10 mins; December 04, 2024
Bava Batra 161: Room for Fraud
10 mins; December 03, 2024
Bava Batra 160: Securing Your Land for the Babylonian Exile
18 mins; December 02, 2024
Bava Batra 159: New Parameters in Inheritance Cases
19 mins; December 01, 2024
Bava Batra 158: Collapsing Case Studies
15 mins; November 30, 2024
Bava Batra 157: The Order of Inheritance
19 mins; November 29, 2024
Bava Batra 156: Old Enough to Get Married, But Not to Sell Inheritance
19 mins; November 28, 2024
Bava Batra 155: Old Enough for Business Sense
18 mins; November 27, 2024
Bava Batra 154: Sick-bed Giving (Or: Not Every Ill Person Is on His Deathbed)
19 mins; November 26, 2024
Bava Batra 153: Cursing Rava
17 mins; November 25, 2024
Bava Batra 152: Deathbed Changes to a Deathbed Will
13 mins; November 24, 2024
Bava Batra 151: A Soap Opera Daf
12 mins; November 23, 2024
Bava Batra 150: Some Significance of Movable Property
14 mins; November 22, 2024
Bava Batra 149: A Convert, a Slave, Rava, and a Man on His Deathbed
17 mins; November 21, 2024
Bava Batra 148: Where's the Miracle? Deathbed Recoveries
17 mins; November 20, 2024