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As Jews around the world engage in a seven-and-a-half year cycle of Daf Yomi, reading the entire Talmud one page per day, Tablet Magazine's new podcast, Take One, will offer a brief and evocative daily read of the daf. New episodes will be released daily Monday through Friday.

Take One: Sukkah 23 and 24

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 23 and 24, teach us that you're allowed to build a treehouse sukkah if you wish. Outdoorswoman Emily Pennington joins u...
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Take One: Sukkah 22

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 22, informs us that a sukkah can be set up even on top of a moving vehicle. Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone joins us to talk ...
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Take One: Sukkah 21

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 21, advises us to listen very carefully whenever Torah scholars speak, for they are always dispensing wisdom, even when ...
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Take One: Sukkah 20

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 20, tells the story of Tavi, Rabbi Gamliel's non-Jewish servant who was a pious man learned in all matters of Jewish law...
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Take One: Sukkah 18 and 19

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 18 and 19, teach us that there's nothing more whole, or holier, than a broken home. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to t...
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Take One: Sukkah 16 and 17

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 16 and 17, spin a technical discussion of fabrics into a breathtaking lesson on compassion. Rabbi Sari Laufer joins us ...
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Take One: Sukkah 15

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 15, teaches us a useful life lesson: If you want anything done, do it yourself. We remember the late Rav Adin Steinsaltz...
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Take One: Sukkah 14

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 14, asks a tough and seminal question: Is a sukkah a home? Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern joins us to discuss this question, a...
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Take One: Sukkah 13

Today’s Daf Yomi page, Sukkah 13, gets into the nitty gritty of Sukkah construction. Author Joshua Foer was intrigued by all those minute instructions...
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Take One: Sukkah 11 and 12

Today’s Daf Yomi pages, Sukkah 11 and 12, raise a thorny question: why, exactly, do we build those little huts on Sukkot? Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins ...
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