Bechorot 21: Reading The Silence

You buy an animal and the seller says nothing about whether she has ever given birth. Is her next offspring a firstborn? Bekhorot 21 gives us Rav, Shmuel, and Rabbi Yohanan reading the very same silence three different ways, and the Talmud never picks a winner. Through a Messianic Jewish lens, we look at how we interpret silence from people and from heaven, from David's cry in Psalm 22 to Mary and Martha waiting for Yeshua in John 11. If you've been trying to decode someone's quiet, this episode is for you.