In today’s Talmud page, Kiddushin 65, the Rabbis discuss whether or not witnesses are needed for transactions to be legal. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to share his take on this question, but also to help ground our Talmud study, particularly during these difficult times. He explores the way that the testimony of a witness serves to prove that what is going on has happened, and how important that can be for a legal transaction, but even more so today as the world is in such turmoil. How is a plank of wood on a boat like a page of Talmud? Listen and find out.

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