Today’s Talmud page, Ketubot 106, tells us a spooky story. It's about a rabbi who didn't mean to, but ended up interfering in some poor schlub's fair trial, and about the prophet Elijah who was so angered by this he decided to turn himself into a literal monster. Why would the kindly Elijah do something so terrifying? And what lesson about morality does the Talmud share with Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and the other great horror movie classics? Listen and find out.

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