Take One

Pesachim 99 and 100

In today’s Daf Yomi pages, the virtue of keeping your mouth shut

March 1, 2021

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Pesachim 99 and 100, give us the rabbis’ wisdom to live by: It’s better to say nothing and be thought wise, than to speak and prove the opposite. John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine, joins us to speak about the burden of being paid to always have an opinion and about living in a world where silence is far less than golden. How do we cure this inflation of hot takes? Listen and find out.

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