Sanhedrin 101 and 102

Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 101 and 102, kick things off with a strange warning: Whoever reads a verse from the Song of Songs and renders it in the form of a secular song introduces evil into the world. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain this quizzical yet profoundly important statement. What precious advice about love and marriage were the rabbis giving us with this prohibition? Listen and find out.

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