Hey there and welcome back to take one the podcast.

That brings you just one terrific page of Talmud each day.

And on today's pages, Menachos 42 and 43, we come across a strange kind of prohibition.

It is forbidden, the Talmud tells us, to sell Tzitsis to an idolater because, well, they could use it to impersonate a Jew.

With all sorts of implications,

danger eating non-coasure food, et cetera, et cetera.

It's just not right.

Now, when I read stuff like that, subterfuge, impersonations, people kind of trying to appear

as something there or not, naturally, I'm sorry to say, but I think of American politics. And when I

think of American politics, I am not sorry to say that there is just one person who comes to mind

our own, Presidenta Cherov. Talk to Jeffrey Troy. Welcome back to the show. Liel, thank you so

much for having me on to talk about presidents and Gamara, two of my favorite subjects.

So before we jump into the obvious connections to American politics, explain to us a little bit.

What goes on on today's stuff?

What is this business with not selling Tits is a stern idolatier?

Yeah, I found this fascinating that if you were seat seat,Seed, then there's all kinds of things that could happen. So you could think someone's a Jew, and then that could make you feel like you're secure of that person, then you're actually not. You could see that person eat out, and then you could say, oh, well, that person's eating Trayf, and I could eat it because he's a Jew. So just giving C-City, it reminds me of the old restrictions that the Israeli military used to have on selling his Tzahal shirts that we used to wear in college. Right. Because somebody could use it to personally, which we actually saw on October 7. So there was a real justification for that fear. And of course then, with anti-Semites online saying, hey, look, he's wearing a

shahle shirt that he bought in the Shook for 20 shuckles. He's clearly a member of the IDF.

But take us from this nexus of the ridiculous and the sublime to American politics.

So this whole issue of wearing someone else's clothes raises issues of identity and in

presidential politics,

partisan identity. So let's go back to 1841. John Tyler was a wig vice president. That was a party

that existed back then. And he takes over when President William Henry Harrison dies. But he's not a

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