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Bava Batra 80 and 81

Sweet like honey

September 13, 2024

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 80 and 81, have honey on the mind. But wait a minute: Why is honey even kosher? Bees, after all, aren’t, and honey is very likely to have bits of bees in it. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to clear things up, and give us a timely teaching about honey’s transformative power. So why do we dip our challah in honey on Rosh Hashanah? Listen and find out.

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Bava Batra 80 and 81
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