Today’s Talmud page, Bava Kama 111 asks whether a child is responsible to pay back a debt left by a parent who has robbed. Tablet’s Executive Editor Wayne Hoffman joins us to discuss his book The End of Her in which he attempts to solve the murder of his great-grandmother. He discusses the double agenda in writing his book of setting out to solve the mystery of this murder, and to figure out the value of the story that had been passed down about this horrible event, and the value of storytelling overall. What do we owe towards the bad decisions of our ancestors? Listen and find out.

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