Take One Daf Yomi
Take One Daf Yomi
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Sanhedrin 110 and 111 - Bang! Pow! Batman! (Part I), with Jordan Gorfinkel
14 minutes Posted Apr 7, 2025 at 4:00 am.
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Today’s Talmud pages, Sanhedrin 110 and 111, kick off a discussion of an idolatrous city and whether or not it should be destroyed. Jordan Gorfinkel has thought about this question a lot, particularly as one of the leading creative forces behind Batman, whose native Gotham is an idolatrous city if there ever was one. Should Gotham be destroyed? Were there innocent people on the Death Star? And what can this Talmudic conversation teach us about, say, Gaza? Listen and find out.