Take One Daf Yomi
Take One Daf Yomi
Tablet Magazine
Avodah Zarah 67 and 68 - The Flavor of Faith
10 minutes Posted Aug 25, 2025 at 4:00 am.
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On today’s pages, Avodah Zarah 67 and 68, the Talmud digs into beans, vinegar, and the science of taste. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to show how the rabbis’ rules of flavor transfer—through heat, salt, and soaking—mirror the ways we absorb spirituality. Can food metaphors help us understand how to infuse our lives with holiness? Listen and find out.