About this episode
Today’s Talmud page, Sanhedrin 106 , dive deep into the story of Balaam, the wicked prophet who set out to curse the Jews and ended up blessing them instead. Courtney Hazlett , Rabbi Diana Fersko , and Josh Kross , the hosts of Tablet's How to Be a Jew podcast, are joined by Jordan Rosenblum , the author of the award-winning book Forbidden: A 3000-Year History of Jews and the Pig , to discuss about how this animal became such a strong and problematic part of Jewish identity. Why is it that sometimes it's the things that are least like us that define us? Listen and find out.