Take One Daf Yomi Podcast
1) Menachot 5 and 6 - Inquiring Minds
On today’s page, Menachot 5, a disagreement about the Omer offering leads the rabbis to slow down and ask what this ritual is actually meant to accomplish. By questioning whether intention, validity, ...Show More
2) Menachot 4 - True Possession
On today’s page, Menachot 4, the rabbis reflect on the omer offering, the first and finest grain brought with great care and intention. The ritual points to a deeper truth about generosity, gratitude,...Show More
3) Menachot 3 - Returning to Intention
On today’s page, Menachot 3, the Talmud opens its discussion of meal offerings by examining when a handful of flour taken from an offering is valid or invalid depending on whether it was taken “for it...Show More
4) Menachot 2 - A Fistful of Divinity
On today’s page, Menachot 2, the Talmud turns from blood and slaughter to a quieter sacrificial world shaped by grain offerings. Rabbi David Bashevkin helps frame this shift as a move from spectacle t...Show More
5) Zevachim 119 and 120 - The Small Aleph
On today’s pages, Zevachim 119 and 120, we reach the conclusion of the tractate and step back to ask what the entire world of sacrificial worship has been teaching us all along. Rabbi David Bashevkin ...Show More
6) Zevachim 117 and 118 - Those Divine Shoulders
On today’s pages, Zevachim 117 and 118, a poetic verse in Deuteronomy becomes a timeline of Jewish history, tracing how divine presence is experienced across eras. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin helps us explo...Show More
7) Zevachim 116 - Turning Tricks into Trust
On today’s page, Zevachim 116, the rabbis tell the unlikely story of Rahav, a woman defined by disgrace who transforms the very tools of her past into instruments of redemption. The Presidentscher Rav...Show More
8) Zevachim 115 - Silent Strength
On today’s page, Zevachim 115, the rabbis argue that there are moments when speech heals—and moments when silence does. Through Aaron’s tragedy, they suggest that quiet endurance can itself be holy. I...Show More
9) Zevachim 114 - Property Lines
On today’s page, Zevachim 114, the Talmud draws a hard line: you cannot forbid what is not yours. From ritual law to everyday life, the rabbis frame ownership as the precondition for moral responsibil...Show More
10) Zevachim 112 and 113 From Individual to Nationhood
On today’s pages, Zevachim 112 and 113, the Talmud examines why and how sacred service shifted from firstborns to priests and from private altars to a single Temple. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to ...Show More