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Kiddushin 29: Teach Your Sons (er, no, not your daughters)
A doozy of a mishnah, especially with regard to gender wars. What mitzvot are women obligated in, and what mitzvot are they not obligated? With some specifics…
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Kiddushin 28: Bartering vs. Purchasing
More on devolving oaths - gigul shevuah. With various cases of swearing that one is not a slave... Also, defining halipin, exchange - what it is and what it is…
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Kiddushin 27: Agav Continued
Cases of acquiring movable items along with land - from tithes of growing produce along with rent to several different kinds of documents - and whether the…
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Kiddushin 26: Agav
The daf has a Mishnah discussing how land and houses are. acquired. The Gemara introduces the concept of agav and how moveable property should be sold with…
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Kiddushin 25: Is Castration an Incapacitating, Go-Free Injury?
The elders in Nezonya did not show up to R. Hisda's shiur. R. Hamnuna goes to rebuke them. They complained that R. Hisda didn't answer their halakhic question…
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Kiddushin 24: An Eye for a Slave's Eye, a Tooth for a Slave's Tooth
Ways that Canaanite slaves go free. Including when a slave is injured seriously, permanently, in an external way, based on the biblical verses, but not only…
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Kiddushin 23: The Slave's Simultaneous Freedom and Ownership
More on slaves' emancipation - and how that works as a matter of transaction. Even if he's not cognizant of it, it's to his benefit - and actions in his own…
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Kiddushin 22: There's Only One Master of the Universe
More on "retziyah" - and the obligation of a master to the slave's family. Plus, a description of piercing the slave's ear, and where the slave who adds to the…
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Kiddushin 21: Retziah
The Gemara continues its discussion comparing the redemption of fields and houses during Yovel. The daf then shares a baraita that explains many of the…
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Kiddushin 20: When Poverty Happens to Good People
Abaye compares himself to Ben Azzai [brief recall of Who's Who]. How does one figure out the purchase price of redeeming a slave? Plus, treating a slave…
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Kiddushin 19: From Slavery to Marriage
Can a father tell his minor daughter to go accept her own betrothal that she isn't old enough to accept herself? Plus, the marriage that follows the time of a…
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Kiddushin 18: How to Read a Verse
Redeeming the maidservant against "his" will - but whose will? The master or the father? What about the strike against the family's good name in the servitude…
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Kiddushin 17: How to Calculate Severance
The daf explores a few different opinions on how much severance must be paid to a freed slave.
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Kiddushin 16: Severance Gifts
Gemara discussed some key differences between female and male Hebrew slaves. The daf also looks at which slaves are eligible for a severance gift and what…
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Kiddushin 15: Cross-generational Talmudic Debate
More on the gezerah shavah between "sachir" and "sachir," with regard to how this indentured fellow goes free - aside from the jubilee year, which is already…
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Kiddushin 14: Protective Servitude?
Recapping Yevamot, to explain the first mishnah of Kiddushin. With a deeper dive into the halitzah case on this daf - namely, how do we know she frees herself…
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Kiddushin 13: Could Women Have Known the Halakhot?
More cases of possible kiddushin. For example, betrothal with a mat of myrtle branches - to no response by the woman who takes the mat. Is that silence a…
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Kiddushin 12: When Is Less Than a Perutah Like a Perutah?
How much is a perutah actually worth? How do we define its value, given fluctuating currencies and given the different value of items in various places. Also…
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Kiddushin 11: The Value of Money
The Gemara does a deep dive on Beit Shammai’s opinion that for Kiddushin to take place with money it must be at a value of at least a dinar. Several opinions…
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Kiddushin 10: The Gemara Isn't Blushing
Investigating the precise moment that sexual intercourse functions as betrothal. With practical implications. Also, a story of terumah and chuppah. [Who's Who…
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Kiddushin 9: Kiddushin Is Not a Bill of Sale
More interesting cases - to illustrate the halakhah. How far do they go toward kiddushin? (Spoiler: Not kiddushin). Plus, kiddushin with a shtar/document. Note…
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Kiddushin 8: The Value of 5 Selaim
Betrothal with money has to be with something that has a clearly defined value. With a parallel to pidyon haben - redemption which also needs to be of a…
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Kiddushin 7: A Wife as Property and as Not-Property
A series of cases of possibly effective kiddushin, and the effect of the formal act of acquisition (kinyan). What does it mean that marriage is effected…
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Kiddushin 6: Chit-chat and the Benefit of a Loan
Other formulations that may or may not work for betrothal. What if the couple is talking about betrothal? Is that enough to betroth her? Also, the case of one…
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Kiddushin 5: A Wedding Canopy Can't Effect Betrothal
Can each of these three ways of betrothal imply the others? Or can any two imply the third? Or do we need all three of them stated explicitly? Also, what about…
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Kiddushin 4: Betrothal with Money
Honing in on the language, specifically with regard to a girl's coming to physical majority. Plus, the question of superfluous words - with regard to letting a…
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Kiddushin 3: From Her Father's House to Her Husband's House
The use of "derekh" - ways - in the mishnah, and a probe into why this term and not another. With parallel cases with a "zav" and an "etrog." What do the…
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Kiddushin 2: Buying a Wife
Embarking on the new relationship, with the new tractate, as it is established by a transactional arrangements. The mishnah begins with the formal act of…
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Gittin 90: When Not to Stay Married
A new mishnah on this last daf! Specifically, under what circumstances is a husband allowed to divorce his wife - of course, a machloket, this time, between…
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Gittin 89: The Moonlight Spinners
When rumours about a woman's conduct abound - when would she need to be divorced? How do we investigate rumors?
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Gittin 88: Generation to Generation
More on signatures on a get on the wrong place. Plus, a verse referring to the Children of Israel being long in the world - 3 generations. Also, another…
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Gittin 87: Signatures in Both Directions
More on a joint get, where the date per divorce may make the difference (a dispute between Resh Lakish and R. Yochanan). Plus, a new mishnah - what happens if…
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Gittin 86: Handwriting, Witnesses, and a Common Get
2 mishnayot bookend this daf, with some "end of the tractate" outlandish cases: 3 types of gittin that are not good, but they are good enough to prevent…
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Gittin 85: What IS a Get, Anyway?
A mishnah with the case of a husband who gives his wife a get with a stipulation that she will be divorced as long as you doesn't go on to marry someone she…
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Gittin 84: Absurd Conditions for Divorce
More other conditions that a husband might stipulate in a bill of divorce - for example, if he stipulates that she now marry another specific man -- then the…
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Gittin 83: In Rabbi Eliezer's Wake
After R. Eliezer died, 4 sages (Tannaim, of course) went to refute his statement with regard to divorce stipulations, each one in turn. Plus, all of the…
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Gittin 82: Exceptions That Seem to Break the Rules
Chapter 9! A new mishnah - a divorce with the vocabulary of "ehla" - permitted to any man, but rather except... But doesn't that language stipulate a…
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Gittin 81: Rumors
A mishnah: A man writes a bill of divorce for his wife and then changes his mind - to what extent does that initial writing have impact in her availability to…
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Gittin 80: So May Ways to Invalidate a Divorce
A long mishnah (or a series that are published together): If a get is written with a name of a place that is not legitimate... Or other goofs in location... If…
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Gittin 79: Pitching to the Rooftops
A woman who stands on top of the roof and her husband throws the get to her - under what terms is she divorced, and when is she not? Plus, the connection to…
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Gittin 78: Bound and Sleeping
2 mishnayot: If a husband says his wife should take a promissory note from him, it's fundamentally a get, but it won't actually function to divorce her. If she…
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Gittin 77: When Your Property Accepts Your Get
The phrasing of one who tells others to write a get for his wife if he doesn't return by a date certain - unclear whether that can be a kosher get. Plus…
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Gittin 76: Proactive Conditional Divorce
More on conditional divorce. Specifically, that the woman should do things for others. Plus combined conditions with witnesses. Also, a condition with regard…
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Gittin 75: The art of negotiations
The daf explains how a condition is supposed to be formulated based on a famous example in Tanakh. A new Mishnah continues to discuss conditional getts but…
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Gittin 74: When a Woman Pays for Her Own Get
A new mishnah: A case where the divorce is conditional on a woman paying a sum of 200 dinar. Plus, other conditions. What happens if they're not fulfilled?…
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Gittin 73: If a Lion Eats a Man Who Has a Conditional Get
A tosefta on conditions that might prevent a get from bring valid - when one is too specific with a condition. (With very precise formulations). Plus, to what…
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Gittin 72: If He Dies before He Wakes, There's a Get for Her to Take (not really)
More on the different readings by R. Meir and R. Yosi. When are verbal instructions to a scribe acceptable? The verse seems to imply that the husband's voice…
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Gittin 71: When Deaf Is Not Deaf-Mute
A deaf-mute who can communicate in writing, who wants to appoint one to write a get for his wife - because he can communicate, the court appoints on his…
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Gittin 70: Don't Eat Standing Up
Talmudic ronouncements about what diminishes a person's strength - with verses from Psalms as prooftexts. Plus, what not to do while standing. Plus, an…
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Gittin 69: More Than Old Wives' Tales
Talmudic medical remedies, which may or may not work (we don't know). Certainly, there was some scientific method, while others seem much farther flung. For…
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Gittin 68: King Solomon and the Demon
A story with R. Sheshet - in his visit to the exilarch, where he has concerns about the uprightness of the servants, who were not careful with kashrut (in…
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Gittin 67: The Ways of the Sages
How does R. Yehudah HaNasi side with R. Yosi against R. Meir and Hanina Ish Ono? Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi defends himself, and that leads into a characterization…
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Gittin 66: Demons and Shadows
A series of mishnayot. 1. At first, when someone was to be taken out to be executed, they'd write a get on his behalf, even if he was abbreviated in his…
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Gittin 65: Stipulations That Work and Some That Don't
Two mishnayot! But first, a quick note on the tearing of the get document. Plus, how minors can acquire property... with 3 stages of development. Also, a new…
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Gittin 64: Old Enough for a Get
Two mishnayot: 1. A woman who appoints a shaliach to accept her get for her needs two sets of witnesses to ensure the divorce goes through. Likewise, when are…
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Gittin 63: A Messenger to Accept a Get
When a woman tells a shaliach to go get her get, and he goes the husband, tells him, and the husband hands it over "as she said," but R. Nachman maintains that…
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Gittin 62: Shalom, Shalom!
More on the interactions between Jews and non-Jews -- specifically in the context of shemitah. How much encouragement can a Jew give a non-Jew? Plus, how a Jew…
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Gittin 61: Trusting Your Fellow Jew
On the interactions between Jews and non-Jews. Also, a new mishnah, on lending utensils to this who are not careful about Shevi'it. Also, the case of a…
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Gittin 60: Writing Down the Torah (Or Not)
The people who lived in the Galil wanted to know if they could read from the Torah for public reading from a chumash (a scroll of only one of the 5 books of…
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Gittin 59: Moshe Rabbenu, Rebbi, and Rav Ashi
The daf describes the continuity of leadership from Moshe Rabbenu to Rebbi to Rav Ashi. Two mishnahs and the Gemara introduces the idea of Darchei Shalom.