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Bava Kamma 8: Land Equity
When a buyer purchases land from a seller that owes money the owed money stays with the sold land. The daf explains different ways the buyer can make sure the…
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Bava Kamma 7: Valuation
The daf explores what exactly the damagers has to pay and form what assets.
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Bava Kamma 6: The Best if His Field
The daf provided 4 possible different cases that explain the what is common between the four types of damagers described in the Mishnah. Rabbi Yishmael and…
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Bava Kamma 5: Damage Through Speech
The daf discusses what type of damagers are not in the britot from daf 4 and how damage can be done through speech. The daf also started to create some…
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Bava Kamma 4: How Many Damages Can You Count?
The daf establishes 3 damaging activities that an ox can do (keren, shen, and regel), and the differences between each of them that can be applied elsewhere…
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Bava Kamma 3: Ma’veh
The daf comes to an understanding of Rav Pappa’s statement that some Toladot and different than the Av. The daf then explains a disagreement between Rav and…
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Bava Kamma 2: The First Gate
A new Seder and a new Masechet! The Masechet begins with a discussion of the main categories of damagers and the relationship between the Avot (categories) and…
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Kiddushin 82: The Hope of Torah
The daf begins with a Mishnah that raises some difficult questions. The last Mishnah of the Masechet and Seder discusses what professions are desirable and…
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Kiddushin 81: Temptation
The daf has a very open discussion about sexual temptation and sin by giving example from the Tanamim and Amoraim
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Kiddushin 80: Chazakot
The daf discusses Rabbi Yochanan’a concept of chazakot and when one does not to bring a witness to prove something. Later the Mishnah discussed the laws of…
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Kiddushin 79: Who’s who
Two mishnahs; First mishnah - when the timing of an agents betrothal for a woman and a father's (or her own) conflict... What is the status of that kiddushin?…
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Kiddushin 78: What Can I Tell You about My Son?
A kohen whose kiddushin is with a woman who is prohibited to him and who is the intimate with her - he gets two counts against him, one for each prohibition…
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Kiddushin 77: Widow, Widow, Widow
A new mishnah about challals, challalot, and their progeny, and whom they can marry. Likewise, converts. Following the lineage quality of the father... Also, a…
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Kiddushin 76: Background Checks
A new mishnah - checking back the lineage of a woman who marries a kohen, namely 4 women which equals 8, when you consider 4 generations on both sides. Though…
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Kiddushin 75: Shetuki and Beduki
More on the Shetuki also sometimes known as a Beduki. The daf also discussed the status of the Cutean and who they may or may not marry.
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Kiddushin 74: Marrying In
A new mishnah, with more on who's allowed to marry whom. The people who are prohibited from marrying others can (maybe!) marry each other. Also, the need for…
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Kiddushin 73: Shetuki and Asufi
The daf explores these two categories of children and how this status impacts the ability to marry who they want.
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Kiddushin 72: The Sun Rises, the Sun Sets
Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi tasks Levi with characterizing several different segments of society. Plus, more comments from R. Yehudah HaNasi, on his deathbed. Also…
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Kiddushin 71: The Pure Babylonians
Comparisons between the land of Israel and Babylonia - regarding lineage and the purity thereof, during the return to Zion, Shivat Zion. With the given that we…
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Kiddushin 70: Drama at the Deli
The time when a visit to a butcher shop led to excommunication, a change of status (from free man to slave), and a matching of halakhic wits between Rav…
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Kiddushin 69: The Inclusive Jewish People
More complications of personal status, including, or especially with regard to mamzerut and slaves - plus, how their union works to cancel mamzerut. Plus, a…
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Kiddushin 68: Matrilineal Descent
Additional discussion of yesterday's discussion - on R. Akiva's opinion that all prohibited relationships result in mamzer progeny. But there are some…
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Kiddushin 67: Really Mixed Marriages and Their Children
A new mishnah - complications in halakhic status of children as compared to the father vs. mother. Even when the marriage itself is prohibited, the children…
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Kiddushin 66: The World of Shimon Ben Shetach
While the daf discusses whether one or two witnesses are needed to prove an ervah the daf discusses the story ad Yannai and Shimon ben Shetach. Plus a…
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Kiddushin 65: Marital Dispute
A new mishnah - with a series of cases: when there's a dispute between a man and a woman as to whether he betrothed her (and the implications of betrothal…
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Kiddushin 64: Permissive Halakhah
More mishnayot - more cases of a father betrothing his daughter (who is not the age of majority). What if the father says he has done so - when is he believed…
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Kiddushin 63: Wanting His Father's Approval, and Other Conditions
3 mishnayot! Each with unusual, surprising conditions for betrothal, and when they donor don't work.
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Kiddushin 62: That Which Does Not Yet Exist
If a man betrothes a woman and explains that he was mistaken in his thinking about different aspects of her identity, they remain betrothed. She wasn't acting…
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Kiddushin 61: If Yes, If No
Irregularities in a field that is to be used for kiddushin - how do they change things? Plus new mishnah on the double conditions of Gad and Reuven. Plus, the…
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Kiddushin 60: The Moneylender's Money
The parallels between the regular case of betrothal and other topics. Plus, specific conditions - based on specifics of money - what he has, what she can trust…
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Kiddushin 59: Underhanded Betrothal
A new chapter, and a new mishnah - when a man appoints an agent to betroth a woman on his behalf, and instead the agent betrothed her to himself. With examples…
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Kiddushin 58: The Benefit of Terumah
The daf introduces a new concept of tovat hana and asks can one take a payment for a mitzvah?
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Kiddushin 57: That Little Hebrew Word "Et"
On the ox that is condemned to death - how do we know that its hide is prohibited from any benefit? As "et" was interpreted by the sages, including R. Akiva's…
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Kiddushin 56: Holy Economics
More on the second tithe, ma'aser sheni - as a paradigm of deconsecrating the produce, and redeeming it, eventually. For example, you can't (or shouldn't) use…
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Kiddushin 55: When Animals Wandered the Jerusalem Countryside
More on the dispute between R. Yehudah and R. Meir. With a mention of Shekalim - and how wandering animals are understood to have been designated for various…
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Kiddushin 54: The Holy Stones of Jerusalem
More on what can and cannot be used for betrothal, specifically among the sanctified property, specifically the garments of the kohanim - that have not worn…
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Kiddushin 53: Designated for God, and Not for Betrothal
A long beraita that is brought into the discussion of when betrothal with a portion of some sanctified or dedicated portion works, or doesn't. Plus, how this…
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Kiddushin 52: The Vexatious Students of Rabbi Meir and Their Defense
A deep dive on 5 women, including 2 sisters, who are given a basket of figs as a means of betrothal. Rav taught 3 of the 4 halakhot that the specifics of the…
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Kiddushin 51: Consummating Betrothal
A dispute between Abaye and Rava, whether a betrothal works if there's no consummation with sexual intercourse. Plus, how is this impacted by an attempt…
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Kiddushin 50: So Many Ways Kiddushin Doesn't Work
If you think your positions in your mind without articulating them, then they don't count, even when it's a positive commitment. Also, 4 new mishnayot…
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Kiddushin 49: If I Were a Rich Man
A conditional kiddushin - where a statement is made as a prerequisite to the betrothal. With implications for lineage status (yuchasin). Plus, a rich man who…
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Kiddushin 48: False Pretenses
A dispute on the question of whether kiddushin works via a loan, on an oral agreement. Plus, transferring the right if collection. Also, betrothal with a…
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Kiddushin 47: How a Woman's Sensibility Affects Kiddushin
Betrothing with a loan does not work - but why not? What is the rationale for the mechanism not bringing about kiddushin? Perhaps the loan itself is never…
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Kiddushin 46: The Amoraim Don't Understand the Mishnah!
A new mishnah: a betrothal via a date (the fruit). But is it worth a perutah? Can the value of the individual dates accrue? What if she eats them as he gives…
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Kiddushin 45: A Glass of Wine, a Bundle of Vegetables, and the Marketplace
A couple of cases of betrothing a daughter - with a cup of wine, with a package of vegetables in the marketplace. And who's doing the betrothing? The father of…
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Kiddushin 44: Missing a Day in the Beit Midrash
On the case of a father betrothing his daughter - a series of disputes on how this works. Which leads into a "reality" story account of the yelling in the beit…
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Kiddushin 43: Is the Hitman Liable or Is the One Who Hires Him?
More on the topic of sending an agent to do a sin - in this case, specifically, murder. With parallels to King David, in his efforts to hide his affair with…
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Kiddushin 42: When Is an Agent Not an Agent? (For Sin)
How do we know shelichut (appointing an agent) works, with some pushback as to whether it should work at all. Plus, the idea of benefitting another person, and…
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Kiddushin 41: Better Not to Be Alone
A new chapter, with a new mishnah: Both men and women can betroth/be betrothed directly or via an agent. With investigation of these cases. Plus, the famous…
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Kiddushin 40: Torah Study vs. Doing Mitzvot
Starting with mitzvot that are done in this world, and the reward for them comes in the next world. Eg: Honoring your parents. Plus, the impact of how we…
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Kiddushin 39: Reward, Punishment, and the World to Come
More on the discussion of orlah outside of the land of Israel, with some sharp disagreement by the sages. Plus, according to those who say there is orlah…
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Kiddushin 38: The Birthdays of the Righteous
The Children of Israel were given several mitzvot at the time they entered the land, so the Gemara focuses on their experience just before this time. For…
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Kiddushin 37: Settling the Land - with Mitzvot
Mitzvot that depend on the land only apply in the land of Israel. Mitzvot that are not dependent on the land apply everywhere. But orlah and kilayim also apply…
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Kiddushin 36: Children of God
Rava and Abaye on Isi's position regarding women not making bald spots on their heads. Plus, the Jewish people as treated like children, in their relationship…
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Kiddushin 35: The Bearded Lady
And now, sources for why women are obligated in negative commandments, including 3 verses that teach different component parts.
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Kiddushin 34: The Path to Women's Exemptions
How do we know that women are exempt from positive time-bound commandments? It's learned from tefillin, which is linked to learning Torah. Or tefillin could be…
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Kiddushin 33: The Ear of Rabbi Yosef's Donkey
More on giving honor - to Torah scholars. Standing before those who brought first fruits vs. Not standing before Torah scholars - what a difference a mitzvah…
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Kiddushin 32: "Sit, Sit, No Need to Stand"
More on kibud av va'em, honoring one's parents. How far must one go? What about correcting a parent's error? Plus, the example of the 4 deaths of the court…
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Kiddushin 31: The Poster Child for Honoring One's Parents
Lots of nuggets of stories in this daf - beginning with defining the lengths one must go to fulfill the mitzvah of honoring one's parents. Dama ben Netina was…
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Kiddushin 30: Sink or Swim
The Gemara shares some beautiful passages about the importance of reaching Torah to one’s children and how to teach. The daf also discusses why teaching a son…