Josh Kross
Take One

Take One: Berakhot 18

Today’s daily page of Talmud asks an eerie question: Are the dead present in the world of the living?

January 21, 2020
Josh Kross

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Berakhot 18, asks a haunting question: What role do the dead play in the world of the living? Are they whispering to us as we pass through cemeteries, or are they removed in a realm of their own? Mark Oppenheimer, co-host of Tablet’s popular Unorthodox podcast, returns to talk superstition, premonitions, and the afterlife. What is our relationship with the departed? Listen and find out.

Take One is Tablet Magazine’s daily Daf Yomi podcast.