Season 4 · Episode 18
Take One: Pesachim 18
In today's Daf Yomi page, some Talmudic advice for epidemiologists
December 9, 202011m 25s
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Show Notes
Today’s Daf Yomi page, Pesachim 18, tosses us into a reality that feels all too familiar, one in which contamination spreads quickly and must be stopped before normal life can resume. Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern joins us to explain how the Talmud's discussion of impurity has a special and starkly relevant resonance in the time of COVID-19. Why was the Hanukkah story, too, a tale of fighting an outbreak? Listen and find out.