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Today’s pages of Talmud, Yevamot 76 and 77, tell us about a man named Barzilai who was so licentious, he would get aroused merely by looking at a woman's dress. What can this Talmudic dude teach us about the pitfalls of Internet pornography? And what dangers do we face when we turn the holy work of sexual arousal into something fast, flat, cheap, and dirty? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s pages of Talmud, Yevamot 74 and 75, deliver a master class in how to have difficult conversations about controversial subjects. What can those of us who spend so many hours each day engaged in heated exchanges about politics learn from the wise rabbis? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 73, gives us a lesson in purity. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about coming to terms with our own imperfections, and why only those who have stumbled can help others rise. What should we be looking at when we gauge holiness? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 72, introduces a moving image of a cool breeze blowing every night at midnight to give the Israelites erring in the wilderness some comfort. Poet Maya Pindyck joins us to meditate on this passage and read out one of her recent and relevant poems. Is there such thing as a magical moment in time? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 71, brings up a piercing question: What happens when a MAN who was already circumcised as an infant decides to convert to Judaism as an adult? Writer and artist Christopher Noxon joins us to share his own journey, and tell us about a strangely moving ceremony at the home office of a doctor friend in Los Angeles. What's the circumcision ceremony like for the already circumcised, and is it mandatory to follow it up with Chinese food? Listen and find out Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s pages of Talmud, Yevamot 69 and 70, remind us that we're all converts to Judaism, which means that even if we come from the most pristine lineage we still have to choose and do Jewish, rather than merely be Jewish, a choice we're asked to make again and again every day. What does that teach us about being kind to others, and about forgiving ourselves? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 67 and 68, contain what is likely the first recorded instance of the disclaimer that retweets do not equal endorsements. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about what the Talmud teaches us about having an argument, and why agreement isn't necessary but acknowledgment is. What other useful bits of Twitter etiquette did the rabbis have in store? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 66, dives into the painful and traumatic topic of slavery. Activist Charles Jacobs joins us with a frightening reminder that there may be more people enslaved today than at any other moment in human history, and a report on some of the good work being done to free those in bondage. Which countries still openly support modern-day slavery? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 65, makes a controversial claim: Because conquest is not in the nature of a woman, the commandment to be fruitful and multiply applies exclusively to men. Writer, podcaster, and mother of six Jordana Horn joins us to try and make sense of this baffling argument, and offer her take on the Bible's first--and, arguably, most important, mitzvah. What does this rabbinical riff teach us about the nature of male sexuality? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 64, argues that time flows differently in Israel than it does anywhere else in the world. Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, formerly of New Jersey and now a resident of Modi'in, joins us to talk about his first Yom Ha'Shoah as an Israeli, and what that moving experience taught him about time. How is an Israeli week different from weeks anywhere else? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s pages of Talmud, Yevamot 62 and 63, delivers a striking vignette of God congratulating Moses after the latter smashed the first set of tablets, displaying real leadership. Pano Kanelos, president of the newly inaugurated University of Austin, joins us to discuss courage, leadership, and why so many contemporary universities seem to lack both. Can leadership even be taught? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 60 and 61, expounds on the Bible's first, and arguably most important, mitzvah, the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz joins us to talk about America's precipitous decline in childbirth, explain why no one is having babies, and suggest a few points of light in an otherwise grim demographic picture. Who are the only people in America still procreating? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 59, gets very technical about virginity and its meaning. Kylie Unell, host of the new podcast 49 Days to Stretch My Soul, joins us to talk about Spinoza, the mind-body connection, and how purity of thought is just as important to understanding the idea of virginity as anything else. Can you remain in a true state of purity in a society flooded by explicit images? Listen and find out.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 58, tells us that the moment in which two people stand underneath the wedding canopy is magically intimate. Noah Salomon, a Jewish musician who has played at more than a thousand weddings, joins us to talk about what it feels like to watch so many people enter into this joyous and sacred space. How do you summon that loving feeling even when you're playing your umpteenth wedding gig? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s page of Talmud, Yevamot 57, introduces us to the sanctity of the wedding canopy. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to discuss the chuppah, or the traditional canopy for the bride and groom, and why it represents more than just the union of two people in love. Was Mount Sinai the first chuppah? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 55 and 56, find the rabbis asking a real tough question: What, exactly, do we mean when we talk about having sex? Rabbi Chaim Brent Spodek joins us to share some thoughts about intimacy, the ways in which we understand and misunderstand sex, and what we can to become better (Jewish) lovers. Why is a kiss so important? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 53 and 54, give us a NSFW meditation on the mechanics and psychology of the male organ. Mark Oppenheimer joins us to discuss the philosophy of the penis from the Talmud to Montaigne, and how it has surprising connections to some of our most pressing philosophical and political discussions today. How does the Talmud's raunchy passage inspire the way we think about bodies and minds? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 52, kicks things off with an exhortation to watch our manners. Kylie Unell, host of the new podcast 49 Days to Stretch My Soul, joins us to talk about the ancient practice of counting the Omer, and how it can still inspire and improve us today. How can something as mundane as counting shape our spirits? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 51, gives us a moving meditation on the power of speech. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about how one word influenced and inspired the rabbis' view of marriage, and how it can apply to everyone, from teachers to lovers. Why is speaking with intention so powerful? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 50, finds the rabbis opining on how sex can change a relationship between men and women. Erin Carlson, the author of a book about screenwriter Nora Ephron, joins us to talk about how the writer's legendary romantic comedies, and especially When Harry Met Sally, continue to address the same question today and have surprisingly more in common with the Talmudic mindset than we may think. So can men and women be friends without the sex getting in the way? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 47, 48, and 49, tell a story of a beautiful woman taken captive by Jewish warriors. Rabbi Sari Laufer joins us to talk about the prisoner's plight, and why the Talmud's particular guidelines award her a touch of agency in dark times. Why must the beautiful woman make herself repulsive? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 45 and 46, warn us against deferring to the opinion of experts. Tablet Magazine's editor in chief Alana Newhouse joins us to share an essay she'd written about the Exodus, about the contemporary state of our politics and culture, and what Jews must do to survive and thrive. Why is it important for Jews to always remain outsiders? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 44, shares a bit of pedagogical wisdom, urging us to teach each child according to his or her way. Educational entrepreneurs Simone and Malcolm Collins join us to talk about what's broken in our current educational system, and how we may go ahead and fix it. Could Pokemon teach you STEM skills? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 43, asserts that there are limits to how long we must mourn the death of a loved one. Writer Amy Bloom joins us to talk about her latest book, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, detailing the journey she and her late husband took after a grim diagnosis led him to choose to end his own life. How do you prepare yourself for the end of life? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 41 and 42, give us a rare bit of thick description, with one rabbi leaning on another. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain this touching moment, and what it can teach all of us today about learning, friendship, compassion, and other things crucial to human happiness. How is studying Talmud like leaning on a good friend? Listen and find out Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 39 and 40, give us a very timely shout out to some sacred matzah. Kylie Unell joins us with a sneak preview of a new podcast, counting the Omer and preparing herself spiritually for Shavuot and the receiving of the Torah. What's the Omer all about, and why count it? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 38, insists that even in a patriarchal society, women, too, are entitled to their own property and agency. Amy Zitelman, the CEO of Soom Foods, joins us to talk about the thriving tehini business she launched with her sisters, and how being a female entrepreneur influenced her Jewish growth. What aisle of the supermarket should tehini be on, really? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 37, sings the praises of the first born, a subject of much discussion in the Bible itself. But why does being first matter? Why are first borns commanded to fast right up to the seder? And how is reading a book instead an acceptable substitution? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 36, raises the thorny question of how you should go about dividing your earthly possessions among your children. It's the stuff of much drama, and Mark Oppenheimer, one of four siblings and himself the father of five, joins us to shed light on the age-old family-rattling question of who gets what and when. Can grandpa get back that heirloom he gave you if he decides he actually really likes it? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 34 and 35, deliver the story of Er and Onan, among the Talmud's most NSFW tales. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain this R Rated discussion of spilling one's seed, and find profound insights in the profane subject matter. What urgently needed modern wisdom might we find in this ancient debate? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 32 and 33, instruct us that the place of our burial matters. Rivkah Slonim, the Associate Director at the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life at Binghamton University, joins us with a primer on souls and what happens to them when we pass from this world to the next. So why does it matter where a person is buried, and what's the point in visiting a gravesite? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 31, deals with what to do when the circumstances of a person's death are uncertain but his widow wishes to remarry. Rabbi David Yosef joins us to talk about his late, great father, Rav Ovadia Yosef, who, after Israel's 1973 Yom Kippur War, presided over a major undertaking to help that war's widows. How did the celebrated rabbi reconcile ancient rabbinic rulings with the modern circumstances of the battlefield? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 30, grapples with divorce, and when it is and isn't truly final. Author Judith Ruskay Rabinor joins us to offer some concrete insights and reflections on what to do and not to do when a marriage ends. Can you still stay friends with your ex? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 29, asks that most ageless of questions: What makes a marriage a marriage? Tablet Magazine's Samantha Hacker joins us 36 hours after her wedding to share her thoughts as the newest member of the married club, and offer some of the advice she and her husband received as they prepared for their joyous day. What is the one insight nearly all happily married friends and relatives had to offer? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 27 and 28, reiterate that old chestnut about never getting a second chance to make a first impression. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about why the first things we say or do when we meet someone new matter so much, and why so many human relationships revolve around these magical and unplanned first moments. What did the Talmud know about babies and attachment theory? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 25 and 26, give us a journalism master class on sorting out rumors and telling fake news apart from the real deal. Tablet Magazine's Editor in Chief, Alana Newhouse, joins us to talk about what the ancient rabbis understood about reporting and tell us how to be savvy news consumers in the age of mis- and disinformation. What did Abaye's mother get about Tik Tok? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 24, kicks things off with a shocking statement: Only those who converted when the Jews were suffering can truly become part of the Jewish people. Quinn Waller, this show's editor who is herself currently in the process of converting to Judaism, joins us to document her own journey, and how she decided to cook her way into better understanding Jewish life and culture. What's the one neat trick to making more delicious chicken soup? Listen and find out. This segment was originally produced for this weeks episode of Unorthodox. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 23, teaches us a master class in labor relations, reminding us that our domestic workers deserve special protection precisely because they are so often seen as just part of our family life. Law professor, employment discrimination attorney, and union representative Tim Oppenheimer joins us to survey the state of the law, and suggest a few ways to make sure we protect the most vulnerable employees. Did the Talmud get labor law right? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is a Tablet Studios production. The show is hosted by Liel Leibovitz, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay and Quinn Waller. Our team also includes Stephanie Butnick, Josh Kross, Mark Oppenheimer, Sara Fredman Aeder, Robert Scaramuccia, and Tanya Singer. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 22, casually informs us that the moment a person converts to Judaism, his or her non-Jewish family should be forgotten. Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy joins us to talk about her own conversion, and about how her observant Christian family came to feel about her journey back home to Judaism. What can be gained by inviting your non-Jewish family to be a part of your Jewish life? Listen and find out. Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy can also be heard in episode 219 of Unorthodox talking more about her conversion experience. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 20 and 21, tell us that listening to our sages is a mitzvah, or a commandment. Reverend Sarah Condon, an Episcopal priest at Rice University and a participant in our month-long multi-faith experiment, The Tent, joins us to talk about learning how to hear wisdom when it's buzzing in our ears, why you should absolutely take your kids to church or shul, and why children and the elderly often make the best sages. How is a Google search like a prayer? Listen and find out. You can hear more of Sarah Condon on the Mockingcast, a biweekly podcast from Mockingbird ministries. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 18 and 19, bring up a question that hasn't gotten any less complicated since the days of the ancient rabbis, the question of consent. Quinn Waller, this show's editor and a young woman currently converting to Judaism, joins us to talk about love, marriage, the patriarchy, and other pressing matters. What do guys on the dating scene these days think about gender roles? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 17, touches on one of the most hotly debated topics in Jewish life: Intermarriage. Keren McGinity, author and interfaith specialist at the USCJ, joins us to discuss what we're getting wrong--and right--when we talk about interfaith marriage. What is the one thing that most people just don't get about the reality of intermarriage? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 16, tells us a long and charming story about three rabbis setting out to learn why a respected elder reportedly went rogue in his teachings. How do the three famed wise men handle the delicate situation? And what superpower did the great Rabbi Akiva have that we could all use today? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 15, tells a moving little story about empathy. Rabbi Sari Laufer joins us to talk about why being honest about your feelings and other people's intentions is the key to a happier, kinder life. Why did the starving rabbi turn down a delicious offering of olives? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 13 and 14, deliver a powerful reminder that we oughtn't let factionalism get the better of us. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin returns to explain this idea in depth, and tell us why we ought to stay together rather than divide ourselves into disparate tribes. What does partisanship have to do with mourning? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 11 and 12, warn us against the sin of being wasteful. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us with a heartwarming story from his childhood that teaches us a desperately needed lesson. Why did the esteemed educator rummage through the garbage in front of all his students? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page,Yevamot 10, forces us to deal with difficult questions. And as we celebrate Purim, the Talmud asks us to contemplate the toughest bits of the Esther story, the part about the Jews killing 75,000 of their foes. Why celebrate a festival revolving around mass murder? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 9, kicks things off with a desperately needed reminder: Even those who hold the highest office in the land must be held accountable. Garrett M. Graff, the author of Watergate: A New History joins us to shed new light on the ultimate story of power and those who abuse it, and tell us why the real story of Watergate is so much stranger than the one we think we know. What urgently needed modern lessons might we learn from a decades-old political scandal? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yevamot 8, is all about marriage, particularly in the aftermath of widowhood or divorce. Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, the editor of Esther in America, joins us to discuss that other Queen mentioned in the book of Esther, namely Vashti, whether she was killed or banished, and might her fate make a difference. Did Vashti really have a tail? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Yevamot 6 and 7, introduce us to the concept of Hechsher Mitzvah, a situation in which a righteous deed can only be fulfilled by violating a prohibition. Lenny Dykstra, a member of the Mets team that won the 1986 World Series, joins us to talk about why it's always better to ask for forgiveness than for permission, reflect on his achievements and his mistakes, and ponder the state of contemporary baseball. Why must you always play like losing isn't an option? Listen and find out. Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group. Take One is hosted by Liel Leibovitz and produced by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Robert Scaramuccia, Sara Fredman Aeder, and Quinn Waller. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.