Podcast
Talmud Daily
The first accessible journey into the heart of Judaism.
Forty weeks. Ten minute episodes Monday through Thursday — plus a longer Friday interview if you want to go deeper.
No Hebrew required. A daily learning program for the rest of us — ending alongside the global Jewish world at Siyum HaShas.
Get the full experience at http://talmuddaily.org.
- Judaism chart
- #9
- Episodes
- 53
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 12 min
- On air since
- 2026
- Latest episode
- 14 hours ago
Episodes
53 episodes, newest first
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9 min
Day 52: Half for God, Half for You
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Day 52 | Beitzah
Making room for God and making room for others begin at the same Yom Tov table.
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13 min
Day 51: An Egg’s Potential, a Holy Day’s Promise
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Day 51 | Beitzah
Fresh food, a phone set aside, and the possibility of discovering something new about ourselves. Tractate Beitzah explores how we make room for a holy day.
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32 min
Day 50: Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: Finding Joy in a Fragile World
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Day 50: Sukkah
Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel explores how the sukkah teaches us to hold grief and blessing in the same hands, and find joy within life’s uncertainty.
Editor’s Note: Toward the end of the podcast, we experienced some technical difficulties that interfered with the audio quality of the podcast. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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11 min
Day 49: Two Messiahs, One Redemption
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Day 49 | Sukkah
Mashiach ben Yosef builds the infrastructure of redemption. Mashiach ben David restores its soul. The Jewish future needs both.
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9 min
Day 48: The Beauty We Bring to Torah
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Day 48 | Sukkah
From the Shabbos table to the Torah we teach, Jewish life deserves our creativity and care.
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14 min
Day 47: Rebuilding the Sukkah of David
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Day 47 | Sukkah
From Avraham’s 318 servants to the boards in our garage, a lesson in living beyond despair.
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12 min
Day 46: Creation, Revelation, Redemption
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Day 46 | Sukkah
Why do we leave our homes for a sukkah five days after Yom Kippur? What, exactly, are we celebrating?
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1 hr 8 min
Day 45: Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: Finding Ourselves in the Holy of Holies
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Day 45 | Yoma
What do two goats, five immersions, and a cloud of incense reveal about the human condition?
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is the Managing Director of Communal Engagement at the Orthodox Union, where he plays a pivotal role in strengthening Jewish communities. Previously, he served as the International Director of Education for NCSY and as the Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY, inspiring Jewish youth through innovative programming and education. He is also the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton and formerly the Dean of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. Known for his dynamic teaching and leadership, Rabbi Glasser connects Torah values to modern life, impacting communities across generations.
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17 min
Day 44: Carrying Our Cries Before God
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Day 44 | Yoma
One person enters the Holy of Holies. An entire people’s tears enter with him.
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12 min
Day 43: Making Space for Forgiveness
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Day 43 | Yoma
Teshuva asks us to take responsibility and imagine a different future.
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15 min
Day 42: Two Goats, One Journey
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Day 42 | Yoma
Today's learning is sponsored by Eli Cem Cohen in honor of student Rabbi Leon Okan Avraham, on his birthday.
Why does Yom Kippur’s service need both the offering and the scapegoat?
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14 min
Day 41: One Person, One Place, One Day
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Day 41 | Yoma
This episode is sponsored by Deborah Spector, Oak Park, Illinois.
A broken covenant and a bereaved father stand behind Yom Kippur’s most sacred encounter.
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1 hr 1 min
Day 40: Dr. Malka Simkovich: How Jerusalem Held the Jewish World Together
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Day 40 | Shekalim
What held the Jewish people together when so many lived far from the Land of Israel?
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11 min
Day 39: The Pushka That Built a People
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Day 39 | Shekalim
How did a small charity box become a technology of Jewish peoplehood?
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6 min
Day 38: A Half-Shekel, a Whole People
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Day 38 | Shekalim
Why does the Torah insist that rich and poor give the exact same amount?
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9 min
Day 37: The Jewish People as a Living Whole
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Day 37 | Shekalim
Tractate Shekalim asks what it means to bind ourselves to something larger than ourselves.
Today's learning is sponsored by Roger in Seattle in memory of his beloved wife Jane.
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10 min
Day 36: Shekalim: The Tractate That Wasn’t Supposed to Be Here
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Day 36 | Shekalim
The Talmud Bavli never had a tractate Shekalim. So how did it end up in ours?
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34 min
Day 35: Rabbanit Sally Mayer: Turning the Jewish Home Into an Altar
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Day 35 | Pesachim
From the Korban Pesach to removing chametz, Pesach turns ordinary domestic space into sacred space.
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14 min
Day 34: The Haggadah as Jewish Memory
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Day 34 | Pesachim
From the Korban Pesach to Maggid, the Seder shows how Jewish memory adapts without losing its past.
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9 min
Day 33: The Stories We Carry
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Day 33 | Pesachim
To know who we are, we need to know the generations that came before us.
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