Take One Daf Yomi

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As Jews around the world engage in a seven-and-a-half year cycle of Daf Yomi, reading the entire Talmud one page per day, Tablet Magazine's new podcast, Take One, will offer a brief and evocative daily read of the daf, in just about 10 minutes. New episodes will be released daily Monday through Friday.

Episodio 2

Chullin 2, 3, and 4 - The First Cut Is the Deepest

On today’s page, Chullin 2, we begin a new tractate devoted to the laws of kosher slaughter and the careful preparation required to make food fit for Jewish life. Joined by Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, we explore how the daf introduces a world where holiness lives in the deliberate precision of everyday actions, starting with the most basic act of cutting. These laws insist that sanctity is built not in grand spiritual moments but in the discipline and care of the home and kitchen. Why does Judaism place so much weight on the smallest, most practical details of how we live? Listen and find out.

7 min
Episodio 5

Chullin 5 - I Fought Gamliel (and Gamliel Won)

On today’s page, Chullin 5, we encounter the towering and often feared figure of Rabban Gamliel, whose authority over the calendar sparks one of the Talmud’s most dramatic confrontations. When Rabbi Yehoshua challenges his ruling, he is ordered to appear carrying his staff and money on what he believes is Yom Kippur, forcing a painful public act of submission. The story reveals a system in which even time itself is determined not by perfect knowledge but by human institutions and the need for collective agreement. What does it take to live with decisions you believe are wrong for the sake of something larger? Listen and find out.

9 min
Episodio 6

Chullin 6 - You Can’t Always Eat What You Want

On today’s page, Chullin 6, a mysterious warning urges anyone prone to appetite to put a knife to their throat and be careful. Desire is not harmless if left unchecked, and even small choices carry real weight. What we call a soul is not something we’re born with but something we build through restraint and deliberate choice. What kind of life does it take to grow a soul? Listen and find out.

7 min
Episodio 7

Chullin 7 - Ain't No River Wide Enough

On today's page, Chullin 7, the Talmud tells the story of Pinchas ben Ya'ir, a righteous man on a mission to ransom captives, who asks the River Ginai to split — and it does, not once but three times, each time on the merit of his righteousness alone. Presidential historian Dr. Tevi Troy joins us to draw a surprising line from that miracle straight to the logic he used working as the White House Jewish liaison under President Bush. What does a river splitting in ancient Israel have to do with seating charts at a presidential event? Listen and find out.

7 min
Episodio 8

Chullin 8 and 9 - A Little Less Conversation, A Little More (Practical) Action

On today’s pages, Chullin 8 and 9, the rabbis ask what practical skills every Torah scholar ought to possess beyond mastery of texts alone. A true scholar, they argue, should know how to write, perform rituals, tie knots, and serve the needs of the community when called upon. The daf presents a vision of wisdom grounded not in abstraction or prestige but in competence, usefulness, and responsibility to other people. What kind of learning matters if it cannot actually help anyone? Listen and find out.

7 min
Episodio 10

Chullin 10 and 11 - For the People, By the Majority

On today’s pages, Chullin 10 and 11, the rabbis grapple with the deceptively simple instruction to follow the majority. The discussion turns on a subtle but powerful distinction between situations we can actually count and situations where we merely assume the majority is probably correct. The daf presents a vision of communal decision-making that values consensus while still leaving room for uncertainty and caution, themes that sit at the heart of modern fights over democracy and judicial power, including the subject of our upcoming Tablet Studios miniseries on Israel’s battle over judicial reform. Can a society survive if it loses faith in how decisions get made? Listen and find out.

10 min
Episodio 12

Chullin 12 - The Talented Mr. Talmud

On today’s page, Chullin 12, the rabbis wrestle with a deceptively modern question: when can we trust that someone claiming expertise actually knows what they’re doing? Is watching a person perform a task enough, or do credentials and reputation matter more than appearances alone? The daf becomes a meditation on trust, supervision, and the limits of what we can truly verify, themes that feel especially urgent in an age of AI, performance, and manufactured authority. In a world full of experts, how do we tell the real thing from the convincing fake? Listen and find out. Also mentioned in today’s episode: A Tie in Tel Aviv

8 min
Episodio 13

Chullin 13 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

On today's page, Chullin 13, the Talmud lays down a strict prohibition against benefiting from anything an idol worshiper produces — a total cancellation, as it were. Presidential historian Dr. Tevi Troy joins us to trace that impulse through American history, landing on Herbert Hoover, the president who became so thoroughly persona non grata that a children's song was written about him as the villain. But Hoover didn't disappear — he came back and contributed anyway. Is the Talmud's cancel rule a model, or a ceiling? Listen and find out.

6 min

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Liel Leibovitz

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As Jews around the world engage in a seven-and-a-half year cycle of Daf Yomi, reading the entire Talmud one page per day, Tablet Magazine's new podcast, Take One, will offer a brief and evocative daily read of the daf, in just about 10 minutes. New episodes will be released daily Monday through Friday.