Today’s Daf Yomi page, Chagigah 8, informs us that the only real joy you could have while eating comes from eating lots and lots and lots of meat. But what is the connection between meat and happiness, precisely? Does it require us to change the ways we think and behave when we feast on flesh? And what common practice is an affront to the rabbis’ teaching about eating meat responsibly? Listen and find out.

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