Chullin 71 has one of those wonderfully strange halakhic discussions that suddenly becomes deeply human. The daf begins with a tragic case: With regard to a woman whose fetus died in her womb and the midwife extended her hand into the womb and touched the fetus, the midwife is thereby rendered impure with the seven-dayContinue reading “Chullin 71”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day.
People make New Years resolutions. Mine was to read a page of Talmud every day, a practice known as daf yomi. There are 2,711 pages of Talmud. It will take over 7.5 years. This is my daily blog with at least one gem from each page I have read. Join me, and see this sacred book through the eyes of a progressive female Rabbi.
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 