Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Taanit Daf 10.
Most prayer books have a cryptic reference to beginning new prayers for rain around December 5th. Why choose a date from the secular calendar and not the Jewish calendar. And why that date? The answer will take us to ancient Babylonian pilgrims and a 16th century pope.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
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Rabbi Joshua Heller is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Torah in Sandy Springs, and chair of the rites and rituals subcommittee of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.
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