Today’s Talmud page, Ketubot 76, gives us an insight into eating animals and what makes a beast kosher. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain how this seemingly technical question corresponds to the spiritual preparation for the High Holidays. What do physical scabs and emotional wounds have in common? Listen and find out.

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