Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 49, discusses whether your intentions and your actions should match in business dealings. Comic book creator and cartoonist Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka Gorf, joins us to to discuss whether only our actions need to be good, or do our intentions matter as well.
Also, he shares his attempt to use the power of Batman to rescue some of the hostages that have been held by Hamas for over six months. Finally, he also shares with us a song for Passover!
What kind of Talmudic superhero are you? Listen and find out.
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