Hi there, J crew, it's Josh, the producer of unorthodox, and while we're off this week,

we wanted to give you something else new to listen to.

However, before I get to that, I just want to remind you that you can see some upcoming travel events for us at tablet mag.com slash unorthodox live.

We've got visits to Connecticut, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida on the calendar, and I hope to be adding more soon.

Again, you can always find all of our travel dates at tablet mag.com slash unorthodox live.

So instead of an episode of unorthodox, this week we're bringing you the first episode of another

podcast we're producing called Take One.

It's hosted by Leel and it's on a topic that we know a lot of the J crew have been asking

about, Daphphyomi.

For those of you who are avid tablet readers or are at least up to date on unorthodox, you'll

know that as of this past weekend, the seven and a half year cycle of reading one page of Talmud a day

has just restarted and lots of people want to get in on it. The Talmud is

basically the owner's manual for Judaism and is made up of two parts the

Mishna and the Gamara.

The Mishna published around 200 CE is the first major work of rabbinic literature

and was the attempt to write down the oral traditions from the second temple period so they wouldn't be lost.

The Gamara has two versions, the Jerusalem and Babylonian, and was written and published between

roughly 350 and 500 CE.

This also means that there are two versions of the Talmud, although in general

when someone says Talmud, they're referring to the Babylonian or Talmud Bovley.

The Gomar is made up of arguments about the Mishna and how these practices and ideas should actually work.

All that said, what was truly interesting to me and a lot of you I think as well is how, regardless of how

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