My religious education focused mostly on community and values like Tikkun Olam (healing the world) and Rodef Shalom (pursuing peace). Growing up, I went to Hebrew school on Thursday afternoons, celebrated most of the big holidays and memorized the Torah portion for my bar mitzvah one phoneme at a time. I met my Jewish wife through Jewish summer camp, and we do our best to light the Shabbat candles with our kids every week. In spite of all this, before I started Daf Yomi, my relationship with the actual texts behind all that culture and history was superficial at best.