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Nedarim 21: If It Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, It's Still Not Always a Duck
Chapter 3! The opening mishnah addresses nedarim that are not real vows, but look and feel like a neder, and therefore should not be said. Exaggerations or…
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Nedarim 20: Women and the Deli Counter
A new mishnah! With various vows and caveats thereof. Including the famous injunction not to prolong conversation with a woman (!). Also, a list of proper…
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Nedarim 19: The Burden of Proof
Consecrating property, even when it has questionable status, as compared to vows, when there is doubt as to the status - both result in stringency. But that…
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Nedarim 18: Context Matters: Swearing Casually and Its Implications
Challenges to R. Huna, and answers to the challenges. More on the stringencies of a neder vs. an oath. Plus, the sin of swearing falsely, and how it doesn't…
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Nedarim 17: How One Can Be a Nazir Twice at the Same Time
A vow within a vow! (But not an oath within an oath). Also, how that kind of vow applies to a nazir (and the debate about it). Plus, being a nazir and also…
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Nedarim 16: Nedarim vs. Shevuot
A new mishnah - paralleling vows (nedarim) and oaths (shevuot). They take effect on different things. Plus, wording swearing off things with a standard…
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Nedarim 15: Conditional Vows
A series of refutations to R. Yehudah's position against conditional nedarim. Which leads us to the difference between a neder and a shevuah. Plus, the drama…
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Nedarim 14: When Your Vow Doesn't Work
A new chapter! Including vows vs. oaths. And a new mishnah: when the vow doesn't work - for example, swearing off edibles that are already prohibited by the…
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Nedarim 13: Granularity
More on precise phrasing of neder - making an oath by association, given the terms invoked. Plus, a new mishnah that expounds on comparable examples. Also, is…
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Nedarim 12: The Breads of the Thanksgiving Offering
What is the Torah source for a vow of prohibition (swearing off something, with the formula of a vow). Specifically as a sign of mourning. With the example of…
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Nedarim 11: The Value of "Francis Bacon"
Another new mishnah - one who designates the food being eaten as non-kosher food, or consecrated, or disqualified from being eaten in some way, depending on…
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Nedarim 10: Sinner or Saint
Is taking the vow of Nezirut considered to be an admirable action or is the Nazir a sinner? The Gemara discusses the precision of language when it involves…
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Nedarim 9: Righteous People Don't Take Vows
A new mishnah! Formulating vows in the style of other vows - like the wicked, like the righteous, like a nazir, like for a korban. Also, defining and…
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Nedarim 8: Sworn to Do Mitzvot since Sinai
Can one take an oath that one will fulfill mitzvot, which are presumably already incumbent on the person who would be taking the oath? What if the oath is to…
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Nedarim 7: A Halakhic Bathroom and a Reversed Excommunication
When an utterance of a statement take effect to have impact on the halakhic status of a thing, and how precise that kind of statement needs to be. Plus, R…
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Nedarim 6: Partial-statement Marriage
More on Abaye and Rava on ambiguous statements, when they're binding, and how potential consecration results in much more stringent care with regard to the…
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Nedarim 5: When Are Inconclusive, Ambiguous Statements Valid?
First, Shmuel's understanding of the mishnah. Also, partial declarations, and when they count as binding and when they don't, especially with regard to the…
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Nedarim 4: The Prohibition against Dawdling
Renewing the question of how a nazir can violate the prohibition against delaying. Plus, the korban chatat (sin-offering) of a yoledet (a woman who has given…
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Nedarim 3: Two Routes to the Same Destination
The biblical source for the variety of statements that count as full or regular vows, developing the "hekesh," a linkage, between nedarim and nezirut. But why…
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Nedarim 2: All the Vows
Introducing Nedarim. The importance of our words and the meaning of what we say. Plus, the significance of Kol Nidrei, and the annulment of vows. Also, the…
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Ketubot 112: Honey, I Shrunk the Fruit
On the Land of Israel and the massive size of its fruit - peaches, grapes, etc. Also the way the sins of the area's residents led to much smaller fruit the…
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Ketubot 111: The 3 Oaths
When Rabbi Zeira wanted to move to the Land of Israel, it raised a lot of ire - to the extent that R. Yehudah says doing so was a violation of God's exile…
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Ketubot 110: Forcing Your Family to Make Aliyah
A long daf, with some mishnayot, and a few key points from the Gemara. First mishnah: Another Admon statement, regarding people in conflict with promissory…
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Ketubot 109: She Should Wait for Him until Her Hair Turns White
More mishnayot, with the statements of Admon: When one promises a dowry, but goes bankrupt and can't provide it, the son-in-law can't be forced to marry the…
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Ketubot 108: Unfair to the Daughters or the Sons?
3 mishnayot, the first with a statement by Hanan, and the following 2 with statements by Admon. First, if a man supports a woman whose husband is overseas and…
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Ketubot 107: Shmuel's Difficult Opinion
A case of a husband who goes overseas and a wife who wants "mezonot" while he's gone - and the question is whether the court will award her the funds for…
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Ketubot 106: Rising Dust
In the context of disqualifying judges for bias, Rav Anan turns down a gift AND sitting on the gift-giver's case. Plus, the case of bikkurim and Elisha. The…
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Ketubot 105: Judges in Jerusalem
A new mishnah, starting the final chapter of Ketubot, 13, with mishnayot organized according to the statements of specific ancient judges, with some question…
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Ketubot 104: Praying for an End to Suffering
More on R. Yehudah HaNasi, his illness, the prayers on his behalf, and his death. Also, the final mishnah of the perek - how long can a woman claim her…
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Ketubot 103: 30 Days of Mourning for R. Yehudah HaNasi
A mishnah on a widow and how the heirs of her husband provide for her. And then the application of the halakhah to the widow of R. Yehudah HaNasi or his…
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Ketubot 102: Put It in Writing! Or Maybe Not
How do we each financial agreements? Do they need to be written down? Can we write them down? How can we prove their terms if they're not written? Plus, a…
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Ketubot 101: Are We Back In Yevamot?
The Gemara wants to understand why there is a repeat of a discussion that appears in Yevamot. Amud bet starts a new perek with a Mishnah that discusses a…
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Ketubot 100: When the Assessor Errs
The mishnah from 99 - assessments of property made by judges that may or may not be accurate. What happens when their assessment is off, as compared to market…
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Ketubot 99: The Responsibility of Representation
Making sense of yesterday's impossible mishnah. Specifically, what it means that she's sold property for less than it's worth, and why that's such a problem…
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Ketubot 98: Widows' Sales
When a sale (a woman selling her late husband's property, for example) takes place outside of the court, does she need to an oath? Does she need to make a…
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Ketubot 97: The Ketubah as Capital
Several cases showing how one sells property for the sake of sustenance, but then is entitled to other monies. For example, a widow who sells or rents out the…
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Ketubot 96: Taking Care of the Widow (Via the Orphans?)
A new mishnah: a widow is provided for from the orphans' inheritance of the estate. Plus, a Gemara that queries the particulars of the widow's status, based on…
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Ketubot 95: A Wife's Role in Her Husband's Real Estate
A new mishnah - where a husband sells the field that is the guarantee of the ketubah (for two wives, no less). Note the importance of the formal act of…
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Ketubot 94: Time-stamping Documents
The case of two brothers or business partners who together are in conflict with a third individual - how to adjudicate the case. Plus, R. Nachman on the case…
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Ketubot 93: The Complication of Additional Players in Financial Allotment
A math word problem, as it were, beginning with a man who was married to 3 women, who each had ketubot of different value - and the man died. And other…
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Ketubot 92: Buyers and Creditors
The case of a man who sold the rights to his mother's ketubah - on the presumption that she'll actually get it. And on the basis that he's not backing out even…
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Ketubot 91: Repossession
Defining "motar dinar." Also, a mishnah that delves into cases where motar dinar is relevant, and how it's applied. Plus, a mnemonic that is a guide for the…
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Ketubot 90: Inheritance and Debt-Collection
Dedicated to the complete and speedy recovery of Noa bat Tova. || We're ending a chapter and beginning a chapter, with mishnayot at both points. The last…
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Ketubot 89: Why We Want Paperwork
A new mishnah - a case of a woman who has her get, but has not yet received her ketubah. She's entitled to it, and he can't just claim he already paid it, at…
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Ketubot 88: He Said, She Said (or He Said, or They Said)
More on how a woman collects her ketubah. And more on when she's collecting from a property with a lien on it, in comparison to orphans who collect their…
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Ketubot 87: Divorce Court (as it were)
What if a woman needs to take an oath to receive her ketubah? What if the husband stipulates that she'll never need to take an oath? And what do you do if you…
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Ketubot 86: Forcing a Debtor to Pay Up
NOTE: If you count the pages of daf yomi, today is daf 1,000 in this cycle (if you count the days, the count didn't work as smoothly, go figure - assuming it's…
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Ketubot 85: To the Rightful Owner
How do we establish ownership of property? Consider a good number of cases demonstrating practical financial law -- and precedent. Including what happens when…
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Ketubot 84: When the Sages Disagree (Whom Do We Follow?)
A new mishnah: what happens when a person dies and several people have claims on his money - whose claim is met first? Also, how the sages who debate the above…
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Ketubot 83: A Cucumber Is Better Than a Gourd
[Shanah tovah! This episode is for Tuesday, September 27, the second day of Rosh Hashanah] A new chapter! Can you relinquish something that is your right to…
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Ketubot 82: The Day Resh Lakish Tweaked the Mishnah
[Shanah tovah! This episode is for Monday, September 25, the first day of Rosh Hashanah] More connections between yibum and the granting of a woman's ketubah…
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Ketubot 81: Mishnaic Good Advice
[Shanah tovah! This episode is for Sunday, September 25, Erev Rosh Hashanah] Who said halakhot were to be derived from the language of the ketubah? The mishnah…
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Ketubot 80: A Deep-Dive into Eating
How much food counts as "eating"? In terms of getting benefit from the property. What if one's animals eat? Also, back to husbands and wives and shared…
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Ketubot 79: Hiding Property in Plain Sight
A woman on the verge of the second marriage who wants to keep her property from the clutches, as it were, of the new husband, and makes a gift of it to her…
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Ketubot 78: He Gets the Fruits of Her Property
Chapter 8! With a new mishnah, of course. On usufruct property that a wife brings into the marriage, and the husband has the right of the produce of the…
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Ketubot 77: A Chat between God and the Angel of Death
3 mishnayot on the daf! The first continues the discussion of blemishes - this time, if the husband develops blemishes, and a possible distinction between…
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Ketubot 76: The Case of the Extra Toe
More on the blemishes. Noting that people with blemishes did indeed get married - even when there was knowledge of them in advance. Plus, some classic Gemara…
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Ketubot 75: Women on Display
Physical blemishes that can negate a betrothal - parallel to those of the kohanim and service in the Beit HaMikdash. Which is itself parallel, to some degree…
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Ketubot 74: The Doctor and the Wise One
How betrothal is brought into effect in expected (a ring) and unexpected ways - the benefit of forgiving a loan. Plus, the impact of sexual intimacy on the…
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Ketubot 73: When Is a Marriage a Marriage?
A machloket between Rav and Shmuel on the previous mishnah: whether a conditional betrothal requires a get if the condition is not met. And the ramifications…