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Gittin 58: The Depths of Jewish Identity and the Depths to Which We Sink
Wrapping up the dapim about the destruction of the Temple. First, on a beautiful (Jewish) child in prison in Rome, as visited by R. Yehoshua ben Hananya…
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Gittin 57: Titus, Balaam, Jesus, and Rome
On Onkelos -- the famous translator, who converted to Judaism. The Gemara here presents his investigations prior to conversion, wherein he consults some dead…
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Gittin 56: R. Yochanan ben Zakkai vs. Rome
Another very long daf with the stories about the destruction of the Second Temple. Encountering some of the personalities of that era... During the time…
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Gittin 55: Bar Kamtza and Rabbinic Apathy
NOTE: Apologies for the late release. This time, massive machine error, in a complicated way. Hopefully now resolved... A new mishnah - a deaf-mute woman who…
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Gittin 54: Intent
A long discussion comparing R. Meir and R. Yehudah, on damages, when committed inadvertently. Plus, what if a man paid another back with terumah? Where is the…
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Gittin 53: Unrecognizable Damages
A new mishnah! One who renders another's produce impure or mixed in ways that it can't be used... Plus, unrecognizable damage - is it tested as damage for…
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Gittin 52: The Responsibilities of an Apotropos
Orphans who rely on a caretaker - with implications whether that caretaker is appointed him by the father, by the court, or no formal appointment, as yet. That…
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Gittin 51: Swearing to Prove One's Honesty
A case of a person who has 2 daughters and 1 son as heirs - the case has its own complications, but the crux of the matter is how much of a given was it that…
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Gittin 50: Settling Debts
How to handle different kinds of people who are owed money, one of which is a woman collecting her ketubah, in a case where heirs also want to connect their…
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Gittin 49: Women Want to Get Married
More on collecting compensatory damages from the best quality of land. Plus, the comparison to paying for damage done to consecrated objects, which sounds like…
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Gittin 48: Owning an Ancestral Field l
One who purchases a field from his father, but then the Jubilee year complicated the issues of inheritance vs. purchase. Which leads to a dispute between Rabbi…
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Gittin 47: Resh Lakish's Last Day among the Gladiators
If one sells oneself and one's children to non-Jews, the children can be redeemed after the father dies, which leads into a famous story about Resh Lakish and…
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Gittin 46: 'Your Silence Is Better Than Your Speech'
3 mishnayot - on tikkun olam. 1. A man who divorces his wife because of a bad reputation, which turns out to be false - they still can't remarry. But what…
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Gittin 45: Rabbi Nachman's Righteous Daughters
A slave ran away from his owner in the Diaspora and made his way to the land of Israel, where the owner pursued him to bring him back. Does that work, or does…
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Gittin 44: Selling Slaves to Non-Jews, Despite the Penalty
A slave owned by a Jew who is sold to a non-Jew, never mind the penalty in place from the mishnah (on yesterday's daf). The Gemara provides different reasons…
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Gittin 43: Penalizing the Seller of Slaves
What happens when a half-slave gets betrothed to a fully free woman? Or vice versa? Plus, does a half-slave have heirs? Also, playing out the halakhah of a…
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Gittin 42: Terumah via the Slave's Owner
A person who is still half a slave and half freed, as done by the master... Can he aquire himself for himself? What about when a master gives his property to…
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Gittin 41: Freeing Slaves for Tikkun Olam
2 mishnayot: 1. A slave whose owner uses him as a payment of debt to another person, but then is freed before he functions as that payment. What happens?? A…
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Gittin 40: Jangling Coins to Freedom
When a slave-owner's conduct has impact on the slave's status. To what extent can a man free a female slave in order to marry her? Plus, the stories of R…
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Gittin 39: Why It Takes a "Get" to Free
When one renounces ownership of a slave, the slave goes free, but still needs a get shichrur, bill of manumission - and then he can marry a Jewish woman. Plus…
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Gittin 38: Slavery and Its Discontents
An uncomfortable daf, given our modern sensibilities regarding slavery. Note that the Amoraim themselves owned slaves; it wasn't just a biblical practice. Note…
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Gittin 37: Prozbul Part 2
The daf continues to discuss Prozbul and how it relates to a plant in a pot. Then we have a new Mishnah which continues with the topic of loans and Shmeitah.
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Gittin 36: Prozbul
The daf discusses everything and anything you want to know about the Prozbul.
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Gittin 35: A Widow’s Vow
A disagreement between Shmuel and Rav widow’s taking an oath or a vow to collect her Ketubah followed by a series of stories illustrating this Halacha. The daf…
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Gittin 34: Rabbinic Will
The daf shares a series of stories when the rabbis needed to help make sure a Get was given and received. Amud has 2 mishnayot. The first Mishnah discussed the…
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Gittin 33: Tikkun Olam
The daf describes why Rabban Gamliel need to make a takana for Tikkun Olam. What does Tikkun Olam mean in the world of the Talmud.
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Gittin 32: Voiding the Get
Once the Get is with a Shaliach can the Get be voided by the husband and how must the husband express that wish to void the Get? The daf also discusses if that…
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Gittin 31: An Easterly Wind Blows
What information can we trust as not changing? For example, that the husband stays alive, after he's sent a get. So too one who separates tithes. Plus, there's…
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Gittin 30: You Can Assume People Stay Alive
A new mishnah! On the concept of "chazakah" - including trusting that people are still alive. But what if the person dies? There are questions of…
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Gittin 29: Verifying a Shaliach
2 mishnayot: first, a shaliach who gets sick. What's he supposed to do to make sure the get reaches the wife? He can appoint another shaliach in his place -…
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Gittin 28: Schrodinger's Get
When a shaliach brings a get from the husband to the wife, the assumption is that status quo ante - the husband is presumed to remain alive, and other similar…
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Gittin 27: A Shaliach's Worst Nightmare?
What happens if the shaliach for a get loses the get? It depends how much time passes before he finds it, assuming he does. Could the get have been replaced in…
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Gittin 26: "Because of the Decree"
A new mishnah! And a template for a divorce, as well as other transactions, and the question of what blanks would need to filled with the right names and the…
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Gittin 25: Retroactive Clarification
When a man wants to divorce a wife, and he has at least two, and he doesn't want to specify which one, and devises a plan for, let's say, whichever one comes…
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Gittin 24: When a Woman Is Her Own Shaliach
What happens when the woman is her own shaliach for her get? She needs to show up to a stipulated court, and when does the divorce kick in? Also, what if the…
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Gittin 23: Is R. Sheshet Too Harsh on Why Blind People Can't Deliver a Get?
Three mishnayot: Who can write a get? Basically, everyone, even the unexpected categories of people - including a woman writing her own get. The implication of…
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Gittin 22: The Case of Carrying Hide on Shabbat to Write a Get on It
A discussion about ma'aser in the context of perforated pots - where the perforation is in the land of Israel, but the pot is outside the land. What gives…
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Gittin 21: Practical Get
A note on the viability of a courtyard "accepting" a bill of divorce on behalf of the woman being divorced. Also, the opinion against writing a get on living…
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Gittin 20: Divorce: In Gold or on a Slave
Chiseling or embossing the letters of a get - with the example of the kohen gadol's front piece. Can a get be written on gold, and let that count also as the…
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Gittin 19: The Advantages of Gall Ink
A get can be written with any substance that lasts - and the mishnah provides a list of them. A get can be written on any substance too - with a dispute over…
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Gittin 18: Travel Time
When does the counting period begin for a woman fromJ the time of her divorce until she can remarry... What about travel time? ie when the get is given or when…
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Gittin 17: When the Sun Sets on a Document's Date
When two shlichim are used for a get. Plus metaphorical treatment of Persia, Rome, and Babylonia, and comparison of them insofar as who was good for the Jews…
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Gittin 16: When Is the Mikveh Like a Divorce?
More on needing two combining elements - in divorce, writing and signing - but other combinations in other arenas of halakhah. For example, two people dunking…
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Gittin 15: The Writing and the Signing
One who brings a bill of divorce from overseas, as a shaliach - various ways the get will end up invalid. With the attendant disputes and resolutions…
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Gittin 14: When Is Taking Not Acquiring?
The case of appointing a shaliach to deliver the funds to pay back a debt - with a dispute by Rav and Shmuel whether the person can call back the shaliach…
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Gittin 13: From Divorces to Debts
A man appoints another man to be his shaliach to deliver either a divorce or a document that frees a slave... And then the man dies before the shaliach gets to…
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Gittin 12: The King's Daughter's Glory: In the Palace - and the Workplace
A slave who has unintentionally killed someone and been exiled to a city of refuge, how will he provide food for himself? How are his earnings to pay for…
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Gittin 11: Benefit to Others in Their Absence
More on non-Jewish involvement in divorces and other documents. Rava introduces an example specifically with Persian non-Jews, but did Jewish witnesses know…
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Gittin 10: When Mishnayot Need Help from Gemara
2 mishnayot: First, the question of witnesses of "Kutim" - which usually invalidates a document, with exceptions, of course. Plus, an emendation of the mishnah…
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Gittin 9: Death-bed Contracts
The contracts a person makes on his death bed, signing over property to his slave, including freeing him. But then he recovers. So what happens to the slave?…
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Gittin 8: Severing a Relationship
Is Syria like the Land of Israel when it comes to freeing a slave? Yes and no. Also, a freed slave who has the document that frees him doesn't automatically…
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Gittin 7: If and When to Turn to Secular Authorities
[Who's Who: Mar Ukva] Mar Ukva, the exilarch, asks whether he is allowed to turn over Jews to the non-Jewish (Babylonian) government - the reasons they are…
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Gittin 6: But What About Bavel
The Gemara discusses how does one establish that a get was written lishmah. There is also a lengthy discussion about verifying gittin written in Bavel and what…
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Gittin 5: We Don't Look to Create Mamzerim
More on the declaration that the get was written and signed in the shaliach's presence - but what if there are two shlichim? What if the shaliach is the woman…
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Gittin 4: Who Knew the Law?
On the dispute between Rava and Rabbah - why a shaliach needs to proclaim that the get was written and signed before him. Plus, the locations from where the…
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Gittin 3: Can a Woman Witness Her Own Get?
How many people must witness the shaliach's statement that he was present for the signing and giving of the get (2 vs 3)? And why. But isn't one witness…
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Gittin 2: Divorce and the Borders of the Land of Israel
Introducing divorce. Including how the verses on divorce in the Torah provide the details of halakhic divorce, most saliently that a man gives a woman a…
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Sotah 49: What We Lost
Wrapping up Sotah! So much had changed in the wake of the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash... Plus, a new mishnah, at the very end - poignant in what was lost…
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Sotah 48: Cancelling Mitzvot
High Priest Yochanan cancelled several practices from the Beit HaMikdash, beyond Sotah and Eglah Arufah: the "Awakeners" and the "Strikers." As well as several…
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Sotah 47: Jesus, Uncensored
[Who's Who: Yehoshua Ben Perachiya] Plus, his story, including fleeing to Alexandria. Also, the story of the apostate who doesn't belong in teshuvah anymore…