Season 1 · Episode 18
Take One: Berakhot 18
Today’s daily page of Talmud asks an eerie question: Are the dead present in the world of the living?
January 21, 20208m 40s
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Show Notes
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 18, asks a haunting question: What role do the dead play in the world of the living? Are they whispering to us as we pass through cemeteries, or are they removed in a realm of their own? Mark Oppenheimer, co-host of Tablet’s popular Unorthodox podcast, returns to talk superstition, premonitions, and the afterlife. What is our relationship with the departed? Listen and find out.