Welcome to the Two Hundred Nintey Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Abby Sosland looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 38.

Guard your matzot! Whether or not you feel a sense of gratitude or a desire to be holy, matzah is an obligation. The great equalizer of the Jewish people, matzah forces us to acknowledge our place in the Jewish story.

Rabbi Abby Sosland is the Morah Ruchanit (Spiritual Advisor) for the high school at Solomon Schechter Westchester, where she teaches Talmud, Bible, Philosophy and Prayer. Her chapter “Crime and Punishment” — about the laws of capital punishment and incarceration– appears in The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews (Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, Rabbinical Assembly, 2012). She runs a free High Holiday service at Town and Village Synagogue in downtown Manhattan.

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.