About this episode
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 85 , finds the rabbis asking themselves the same question so many of us have been asking since Oct. 7, 2023: What did we do to deserve such a catastrophe? Their answers are subtle, surprising, and incredibly relevant. Why are blessings the key to rebuilding after disaster? Listen and find out. Like the show? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter . Send us a note at takeone@tabletmag.com . Follow us on Twitter at @takeonedafyomi and join the conversation in the Take One Facebook group . We think that you may also enjoy Liel's new book How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book, available directly from the publisher , or wherever you purchase books. Listen to the Testimonies Archive , a partnership between Tablet Studios and the USC Shoah Foundation, for eyewitness audio accounts from Israel in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas attacks. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts .