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Pesachim 29 and 30

In today’s Daf Yomi pages, the essence of flavor

December 21, 2020

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Pesachim 29 and 30, introduce the peculiar concept of Noten Ta’am, something that gives flavor, an idea that sounds like it belongs more on a cooking show than a page of Talmud. Rabbah Sarah Hurwitz joins us to explain this idea, and what it teaches us about the essence of Kashrut. What does taste have to do with keeping exclusively kosher pots and pans? Listen and find out. returns to make sense of all this wheeling and dealing, and explain why sometimes the deepest and most profound truths rest in legal loopholes. Is their secret poetry in our fine print? Listen and find out.