Bava Batra 176

Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 176, brings us to the end of one of the Talmud’s longest and most demanding tractates. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to sum it all up. Why does this legalistic tractate contain a collection of wild stories about the Jewish Sinbad, and what do they teach us about coexistence? Listen and find out.

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