Sanhedrin 110 and 111

Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 110 and 111, kick off a discussion of an idolatrous city and whether or not it should be destroyed. Cartoonist Jordan Gorfinkel has thought about this question a lot, particularly as one of the leading creative forces behind the Batman franchise, whose Gotham is an idolatrous city if there ever was one. Should Gotham be destroyed? Were there innocent people on the Death Star? And what can this Talmudic conversation teach us about, say, Gaza? Listen and find out.

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