This is on orthodox. The universe is leading Jewish podcast. I am one of your hosts, Stephanie

Bunnick, and I'm here with one of your other hosts, Liel Liebowitz.

I think we're alone now. There doesn't seem to be Mark Oppenheimer around.

So we've given Dad the week off, and we are here to tell you about some really fun things

that we have been working on, behind the scenes, from our closets, from our basements, from our addicts, over the pandemic.

We have some new shows, and we want to tell you all about them today.

Well, you have been binging on the Queen's Gambit. We have been producing podcasts for you to binge on.

Before we get to any new shows, Liel, give us a take one update.

So one of the most charming traditions in Jewish life is this thing called Daffyomi,

which literally means a page a day. It's a tradition of reading just one page of the Talmud a day,

finishing the whole cycle in a convenient seven and a half year stretch.

Last January was the completion of the cycle, and something like 95,000 people gathered in giant stadium

back when you could still gather in stadiums to celebrate this accomplishment of having read the entire Talmud together one page at a time.

And so I'm watching this, and I've always had a curiosity about Daffyomi and love reading and studying Talmud.

And so I called our friend and producer Josh Cross and said, hey, you know, kind of a good thing.

One day we should have a Talmud podcast, and Josh said, well, why not start one when the next Daffyomi cycle starts?

And I said, well, because it's Thursday now, and the next cycle starts on Monday.

You're like, I was thinking we could have a seven year lead time.

Correct.

And shaking a seven and a half year old commitment with a day's notice to produce it isn't the most prudent thing.

And Josh said, you know, we'll figure it out as we go along. That's how we always do things.

And so here we are. We launched last January, and the idea behind the show is very, very simple.

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