Welcome to the Three Hundred Fourty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Michael Bernstein looks at Masechet Pesachim Daf 85.

Today we ask when ritual becomes more important than ethics.

Rabbi Michael Bernstein is the spiritual leader of Congregation Gesher L’Torah in Alpharetta, Ga. He served as the senior Rabbi at Congregation Bnai Jacob in Longmeadow, MA from 1999-2004, and at Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley, Pa., from 2004-2008. Michael received his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1999 and is an alumni of the Rabbis Without Borders second cohort. Michael specializes in Jewish philosophy, especially that of Emmanuel Levinas and focuses on how to see the directives inherent in Jewish tradition as meaningful, ethical, and relevant.

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