THIS WEEK'S
DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN
TABLET:
The Price of a Firstborn. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the biblical redemption of a woman’s eldest opens logical byways into cesarean sections, stillbirths, and when Jewish life begins.
Earlier
Daf Yomi columns are noted
here and links. And for more on caesarean section in antiquity, see
here.
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