Talking Talmud is the podcast by Anne Gordon and Yardaena Osband.
Anne Gordon is the deputy editor of Ops & Blogs at The Times of Israel. She is a veteran educator, having taught in high school and post-high school institutions in Israel and America for several decades.
Yardaena Osband is a pediatrician and teaches in her community and online. They both hail from Boston, proud alumna of Maimonides School, where they first learned Gemara.
Talking Talmud is their conversation (via podcast) on the daf yomi. They say: “Learning the daf? We have something for you to think about. Not learning the daf? We have something for you to think about! (Along with a taste of the daf…)
Join the conversation with us!”
Recent Posts
Nedarim 87: Missing Intel
The case of a man who discovers later that he didn’t have all the details at the time he revoked a vow. With a parallel…
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Nedarim 86: Who Owns a Wife’s Body?
In memory and tribute of our teacher Rabbi Moshe Kahn z”l || More on the question of a vow about something that doesn’t yet exist,…
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Nedarim 85: Swearing Away the Future
A new mishnah – a woman who makes the things she produces off-limits from her father, brother, in-laws… The husband can revoke the vow. She…
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Nedarim 84: The Pool of Poor People
A woman who has sworn off benefit from people, and can still eat from the agricultural mitzvot of charity, but it doesn’t mention ma’aser ani.…
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Nedarim 83: If It’s a Mitzvah, It’s No Gift
What did R. Yochanan mean about partial revoking of vows? With the parallel to nezirut, and how it can’t be separated in its vow. Plus,…
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Nedarim 82: Combination Nedarim
More on the husband’s revoking his wife’s vows, and how he cannot do so when it comes to a vow she makes pertaining to a…
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Nedarim 81: Swearing Off Makeup
Why are the children of Torah scholars not themselves also Torah scholars? With several possible answers. Also, going back to a wife’s nedarim that do…
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Nedarim 80: Defining Affliction
A study of self-affliction: what is “inui”? What needs to be prohibited from oneself? With bathing as the example. Also, the question of how not…
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Nedarim 79: The Safety Net
Finishing the 10 chapter of Nedarim on the husband who revokes his wife’s vows, as needed. And… beginning chapter 11, with a new mishnah on…
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Nedarim 78: To Annoy His Wife
Again, nullifying vs. revoking – hatarat vs. hafarat nedarim. As learned from “zeh ha-davar,” as worded in the biblical verse. Plus, a gezerag shavah with…
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