Today’s Daf Yomi page, Yoma 23, unfolds like something out of Game of Thrones: in the heat of passion, overcome by religious zeal, one priest murders another. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to talk about this sordid story, and what it can tell us about our own psychologies, desires, and fears. Why are we most fragile when nearing transcendence? Listen and find out.

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