Chullin 73 and 74 - The Take One Summer Barbecue: Holy Smoke

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Chullin 73 and 74 - The Take One Summer Barbecue: Holy Smoke

Tablet Magazine

July 13, 2026 · 7:09

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On today’s pages, Chullin 73 and 74⁠, a technical discussion about sacrificial animals becomes a conversation about one of Judaism’s oldest mysteries. Recorded around a barbecue table in upstate New York, this special summer series with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin and producer Josh Kross asks why a religion so deeply concerned with compassion ever placed animal sacrifice at its center. What was sacrifice really meant to accomplish? Listen and find out.