Today’s Talmud page, Gittin 14, shares a story that could have come right out of Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s master work The Godfather. The story explores the difficult decision that one of the rabbis makes when the other is being beaten up. What does the Talmud and The Godfather teach us about the struggle between doing what is needed and doing what is right? Listen and find out.

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