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Take One Daf Yomi

As Jews around the world engage in a seven-and-a-half year cycle of Daf Yomi, reading the entire Talmud one page per day, Tablet Magazine's new podcast, Take One, will offer a brief and evocative dail... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Take One: Berakhot 4 and 5

Take One: Berakhot 4 and 5

Today's Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 4 and 5, begin with a king fretting about his sins and soul. He is King David: No stran... Read more

8 Jan 2020

11mins

Ranked #2

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Take One: Berakhot 6 and 7

Take One: Berakhot 6 and 7

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 6 and 7, raise a strange and wonderful question: Does God pray? And if so, what does th... Read more

9 Jan 2020

10mins

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Ranked #3

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Take One: Shabbat 53

Take One: Shabbat 53

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 53, is a work of stable compassion, asking just what we're permitted to do to keep our ho... Read more

28 Apr 2020

8mins

Ranked #4

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Take One: Shabbat 49 and 50

Take One: Shabbat 49 and 50

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 49 and 50, tell us a moving story of a righteous man, Elisha, who teaches us a more spir... Read more

24 Apr 2020

13mins

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Ranked #5

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Take One: Shabbat 51 and 52

Take One: Shabbat 51 and 52

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 51 and 52, have a nice ring to them. We mean this literally: The rabbis give us an intri... Read more

27 Apr 2020

10mins

Ranked #6

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Take One: Berakhot 8 and 9

Take One: Berakhot 8 and 9

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 8 and 9, begin with a thorny statement: If you don't visit your local synagogue, you're... Read more

10 Jan 2020

7mins

Ranked #7

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Take One: Berakhot 10

Take One: Berakhot 10

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 10, introduces us to one of the Talmud's most formidable—and only—women. Her name is Ber... Read more

13 Jan 2020

11mins

Ranked #8

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Take One: Berakhot 63 and 64

Take One: Berakhot 63 and 64

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 63 and 64, bring us to the end of our first tractate. After weeks of thinking about whi... Read more

6 Mar 2020

9mins

Ranked #9

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Take One: Shabbat 18

Take One: Shabbat 18

Today's Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 18, revolve around a strange question: Should we let our utensils, too, rest on Shabbat? ... Read more

24 Mar 2020

12mins

Ranked #10

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Take One: Shabbat 19

Take One: Shabbat 19

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 19, dives into a nautical question: Is it permitted to go a-sailing just before Shabbat? ... Read more

25 Mar 2020

9mins

Ranked #11

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Take One: Shabbat 2 and 3

Take One: Shabbat 2 and 3

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 2 and 3, launch a brand new tractate, dedicated to all the things we can and can't do on... Read more

9 Mar 2020

7mins

Ranked #12

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Take One: Shabbat 48

Take One: Shabbat 48

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Shabbat 48, is all about pillows. Are you allowed to stuff yours on Shabbat? The rabbis' decree i... Read more

23 Apr 2020

8mins

Ranked #13

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Take One: Berakhot 48

Take One: Berakhot 48

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 48, raises a question we've all bumped up against now and then: What's the proper way to... Read more

20 Feb 2020

8mins

Ranked #14

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Take One: Berakhot 11

Take One: Berakhot 11

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 11, begins with a loopy parable about beards that's really about something much bigger: ... Read more

14 Jan 2020

7mins

Ranked #15

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Take One: Berakhot 28 and 29

Take One: Berakhot 28 and 29

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 28 and 29, tell a story of an awkward meeting between two rabbis, one wealthy and imper... Read more

31 Jan 2020

11mins

Ranked #16

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Take One: Berakhot 41

Take One: Berakhot 41

Today’s Daf Yomi, Berakhot 41, gets us into the nitty-gritty of how to say different blessings over different foodstuffs... Read more

13 Feb 2020

11mins

Ranked #17

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Take One: Shabbat 21 and 22

Take One: Shabbat 21 and 22

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Shabbat 21 and 22, contain a well-known discussion of how to light the Hanukkah menorah. Which, ... Read more

27 Mar 2020

13mins

Ranked #18

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Take One: Berakhot 21 and 22

Take One: Berakhot 21 and 22

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Berakhot 21 and 22, give us a torrent of bodily fluids, and one astonishing story that begins wi... Read more

24 Jan 2020

8mins

Ranked #19

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Take One: Berakhot 47

Take One: Berakhot 47

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 47, asks a big, tough question: Exactly what does a Jew need to know and do in order to ... Read more

19 Feb 2020

10mins

Ranked #20

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Take One: Berakhot 54

Take One: Berakhot 54

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 54, raises one of the most difficult edicts in all of the Talmud: We must, it informs us... Read more

26 Feb 2020

10mins

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