Season 39 · Episode 100
Zevachim 100 – The Weight of Grief
Zevachim 100 – The Weight of Grief
December 23, 20257m 47s
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Show Notes
On today’s page, Zevachim 100, the rabbis dwell on acute mourning, a moment when grief interrupts routine, obligation, and even meaning itself. The late Norman Podhoretz offers a powerful meditation on the role of ideas and intellectual responsibility at precisely such moments of rupture. What happens when loss forces us to reconsider what truly shapes history and our lives? Listen and find out.
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