Bava Batra 38 and 39

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 38 and 39, discuss what happens to legal arrangements and normal life if and when the land of Israel is ravaged by war. Producer Courtney Hazlett joins us with a dispatch from Israel, shining a light on the life of one ordinary family living with 10 months of war. What do ordinary people do in extraordinary circumstances? Listen and find out.

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