Today’s Talmud pages, Gittin 26 and 27, deliver a stark warning against bureaucracy, warning us not to let overly complicated systems, and the people who run them, take over and drain our most basic exchanges of all soulfulness and meaning. Why does Harvard have one administrator per student these days? Listen and find out.

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