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Sukkah 55

In today’s Daf Yomi page, praying for world peace

August 31, 2021

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 55, contains a surprising revelation: On the last day of Sukkot, we pray for ... world peace?

Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern joins us to explain this poetic passage, and what it has to offer us in our contemporary troubled times.

Why is the Talmud offering us a universalist message in the middle of a discussion about Sukkot? Listen and find out.

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