In today’s Talmud page, Gittin 71, it states that testimony should come in spoken form rather than in writing. Rabbi Dovid Beshevkin returns to discuss why a witness needs to testify in person rather than in writing, and posits that it is not just a question of halacha, Jewish law, but rather that it is instructive on how to best transmit ideas. Do we deepen our relationship with Torah by hearing it taught rather than just reading it? Listen and find out.

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