About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of animal sacrifice in Judaism while recorded at a summer barbecue.

On today’s pages, Chullin 73 and 74⁠, a technical discussion about sacrificial animals becomes a conversation about one of Judaism’s oldest mysteries. Recorded around a barbecue table in upstate New York, this special summer series with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin and producer Josh Kross asks why a religion so deeply concerned with compassion ever placed animal sacrifice at its center. What was sacrifice really meant to accomplish? Listen and find out.

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