The lady doth protest too much, methinks

This is The Oral Talmud, episode 68, Thou Doth Protest Too Much.

Welcome to The Oral Talmud, a co-production of Judaism Unbound and Sfara, a traditionally radical yeshiva.

I'm Dan Liebenson.

I think we started it last time, but we're going to pick it up there today.

I mean, this is a particularly long piece.

And I mean, actually, like when I think, you know, I've been spinning out these various theories and it almost feels to me like we were teaching our daughter yesterday what the phrase, methinks thou doth protest too much, means.

You know, and I mean, of course, that's kind of a misquotation from Shakespeare, but it's, you know, but that's what's come into the language.

And, you know, we were explaining to her, like, if you keep saying, like, I didn't eat that candy or whatever, you know, that probably means that you did eat the candy.