Ketubot, Daf 79

The JCast Network Total Feed · Sep 23, 2022

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 79.

Real estate is often considered to be the best investment, and it certainly functions that way in a usufruct arrangement where a husband manages his wife’s property and benefits from the income. Thus it makes sense that our Mishnayot decree that if a man’s wife inherits moveable property—money, or slaves, or trees—that he can sell them in favor of real estate. Yet these rulings are contested when it comes to slaves and also old trees that the woman may treasure for their connection to…