גיטין – Gittin

Divorce rates and religious commitment.

The rabbi who sailed to Australia to deliver a get.

Scientists analyze the ink on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with surprising results.

Life expectancy in the talmudic era.

Is a person is more likely to die than become wealthy?

The hermeneutic Principle of Charity.

“More than a man desires to wed, a woman desires to be wed." Nope.

Deprive a lab rat of the ability to dream, and it will die. And what Rebbi Meir thought.

Why she converted to Judaism and dedicated a plaque in the Temple.

For a cough, eat balsam mixed with dog excrement. But sometimes ancient remedies work.

Changing rabbinic rulings and the deaf.

Rabbi Meir declared it immodest. How times have changed.