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Ketubot 72: The Hair-Covering Daf
A mishnah on the practices of Dat Moshe and Dat Yehudit, and defining them by their practices, in the context of a woman who violates either category, and can…
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Ketubot 71: "Place a Finger between Her Teeth"
A puzzle of language. In the context of a discussion about the husband who vows in such a way that his wife is sworn off something to such a degree, and in an…
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Ketubot 70: Absurd, Outlandish Vows and the Third-party Loopholes around Them
A new chapter, a new mishnah! If a man takes a vow that his wife won't get any benefit from him, they divorce and she gets the ketubah - with some dispute over…
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Ketubot 69: Last of the Tannaim, First of the Amoraim
A dispute and conversation between R. Yehudah HaNasi and Rav on the inheritance and transference of property - with an eye to dowries. Also, the right of a…
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Ketubot 68: You Don't Have to Be Homeless to Need Help
The discussion of charity begins in Pe'ah, with a focus on how poor one must be to receive tzedakah, when the expectation is that one downgrade, and when one…
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Ketubot 67: Buffet's Giving Pledge and Talmudic Tzedakah
A husband's requirement to provide clothing for his wife, even when her father has written her off. Also, stories illustrating these issues. Including those of…
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Ketubot 66: Why a Wife's Humiliation Shames Her Husband
A new chapter! A new mishnah! Which provides the text of the "equation" for what each spouse owes the other, including what funds paying back humiliation might…
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Ketubot 65: Real Wives of Abaye and Rava
To what extent do the provisions for a woman include wine? The answer seems to depend on whether she's accustomed to drinking wine - clearly, some women did…
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Ketubot 64: A Woman's Provisions
More on wives deemed "rebellious." An assortment of rabbis needed to adjudicate a case of a moredet and whether she needs to give up her wardrobe. [What's…
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Ketubot 63: Rabbi Akiva: Shepherd, Scholar, Husband
Part of the famous story of Rabbi Akiva - the story of his years of Torah study and his wife's possibly surprising years of support. Also, a new mishnah: a…
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Ketubot 62: Those Special Friday Nights
A few disputes between Rav and R. Yochanan, including how a groan can break your whole body, and how that's a matter of the Jewish condition, in terms of…
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Ketubot 61: Mommy Wars and Whetting a Waiter's Appetite
Dedicated in the memory of Dr. Dodi Tobin z"l. || A series of what amounts to recommendations by the sages for a healthy diet during pregnancy. Including how a…
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Ketubot 60: A Mother and Child Reunion
The Gemara discusses its understanding of some developmental milestones and explains how infants recognize their mothers. When can nursing mothers remarry?
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Ketubot 59: A Wife's Responsibilities
A husband cannot consecrate a wife's earnings after all. How is this case parallel to swearing off the use of something? Is it really comparable to the terms…
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Ketubot 58: Did the Kohen Cook Dinner?
What if a wedding is delayed and one of the couple is a kohen? What happens to the terumah and the woman's ability (or lack thereof) to eat from it? Also, a…
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Ketubot 57: Using Rivka's Story to Explain No Child-Marriage
More on the chuppah, and the end of the marriage ceremony. Also, a new mishnah: preparation for the wedding and marriage could easily take a year in advance…
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Ketubot 56: Love of the Chuppah - Or of the Wedding Night
Reactions to R. Elazar ben Azariah's opinion regarding "umdana," assessment of intent, specifically with regard to the ketubah. Plus, the sages on the sages…
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Ketubot 55: Intent to Marry
A new chapter (5), a new mishnah: on the value of the ketubah, and the possibility that the husband add to the baseline sums of 200 dinar for a virgin and 100…
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Ketubot 54: Respecting Respective Rabbis' Views: On Inheritance
Ending chapter 4: beginning with some of the geographic differences in talmudic times - and how different places had different practices. Which leads to a…
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Ketubot 53: When a Girl Becomes a Woman (financially speaking)
Pre-wedding negotiations, and how they were manifest back in the day. Plus, the economic focus of marriage. Also, the question of how long a man or his estate…
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Ketubot 52: Captives, Bloodletting, and Tailoring a Standardized Ketubah
When is a husband obligated to redeem his wife? To be sure, it depends, and it's a machloket. Also, more generally, redeeming people for ransom, including the…
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Ketubot 51: Rape Is Rape (Or: Where Shmuel's Father Goes Wrong)
Truly, a doozy of a daf (again, rape). But first, establishing the minimum standard of the ketubah (a mishnah!). Likewise, the standard that a man has to…
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Ketubot 50: Age-Appropriate Curriculum
[What's What: Usha] Also, not giving TOO much tzedakah, and the source for that. Plus, the decree that a man's obligation to educate his son is more gentle…
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Ketubot 49: Even the Jackal Feeds Its Young
A new mishnah! On "mezonot" - sustenance - that a father turns out not to be obligated to provide for his daughter. But how can that possibly be? The Gemara…
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Ketubot 48: The Transactional Equations of Marriage
What does a wife owe her husband? What does a husband owe his wife? From her earnings to her conjugal rights. Which term means what? Each sage who weighs in…
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Ketubot 47: A Wife's Monies
Contractual relationships that a woman (even a girl) has with her father and then, presumably, eventually, her husband. Including the source for the father's…
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Ketubot 46: The Triangle of Husband, Wife, and Her Father
More on the case of defamation of a woman by her husband. What happens, practically, when one brings such a case? The husband goes to the court, and then the…
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Ketubot 45: Stoning at the Entrance to the City
The case of Motzi Shem Ra - defamation - from a husband against his wife. Namely, his accusation that she has had an affair and has not slept with the husband…
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Ketubot 44: Tailor-made Ketubot
The woman's ketubah can function as a lien, fundamentally, on the man's property. In the case under discussion, of a woman who is betrothed/married twice, do…
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Ketubot 43: Halakhic Estate Planning
R. Avina asks R. Sheshet about the case where a girl's brothers provide for her from the father's estate. Since her father would have gotten her earnings…
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Ketubot 42: Seduction Is Not Consent
A new chapter, a new mishnah. In the event of a seduction or rape, the compensation for degradation, humiliation, and the fine go to her father. Unless he has…
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Ketubot 41: Partial Payments and a Goring Ox
Closing the chapter, with a new mishnah. If someone stole, and then comes clean, he doesn't have the pay the additional fine (eg: 2x the object stolen…
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Ketubot 40: Putting a Price on Humiliation
3 mishnayot: 1. An orphan who is betrothed and then gets divorced - and is then raped, what penalty does the rapist get? [Who's Who: R. Elazar ben Shamua]…
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Ketubot 39: Trigger Warning: Rape
There are women who might use the talmudic era version of barrier birth control, including a pregnant woman, a nursing woman, and especially with concern for…
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Ketubot 38: She Can't Go Home Again
A new mishnah! A young woman who is betrothed and then divorced - in the event of rape, would she receive a fine? And who would receive it, if yes? It's a…
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Ketubot 37: An Ethic of Justice
A female convert needs to wait 3 months post-conversion before getting married, to be sure she wasn't pregnant prior to marriage. But not everyone agrees…
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Ketubot 36: The Spectrum of Violation
A series of cases where divorce or annulment is taking place - when does the wife receive the penalties, for example, if she's been a victim of rape or…
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Ketubot 35: Building Up a Gezarah Shavah
Gezarah shavah! Where does the Torah specify all of the people who would deserve lashes as a punishment? From a gezarah shavah - of one or another, which is a…
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Ketubot 34: Two Sins, One Death Penalty
If one slaughters an animal on Shabbat or Yom Kippur, that's a violation of Shabbat or Yom Kippur, but the animal is kosher for others to eat. Which seems to…
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Ketubot 33: Lashes, Warnings, and the Fiery Furnace
The impact of warning on sin, punishment, and how it works with plotting (conspiring) witnesses. But how can conspiring witnesses ever get a proper warning?!…
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Ketubot 32: According to the Amount of One's Wickedness
A deep dive into a dispute between Ulla and R. Yochanan about not paying and getting lashes, both, for the same event. Plus, a brief discussion of damages in…
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Ketubot 31: Walking, Standing and Throwing
The Gemara discusses at in great detail all the different steps involved with the actions of walking, standing, and throwing and how they relate to the melacha…
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Ketubot 30: When a Thief Is Caught Red-handed, Yet He May Not Have to Pay
The case of illicit relationships and the penalty that would need to be paid - which did not align with the view of R. Nechuniyah ben HaKaneh. He draws the…
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Ketubot 29: If a Kohen Gadol Rapes a Widow, Can They Marry?
Chapter 3! A situation of rape... Which was treated differently back in the day. In this mishnah, the penalty that a man who rapes a girl (whose presumptive…
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Ketubot 28: Childhood Memories
The Gemara makes assumptions about couples that have divorced to protect them against future inappropriate intimacy. Also, a mishnah on adults who recall key…
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Ketubot 27: Holding Hands: To No Avail
A mishnah: A city that was conquered - the women who were married to kohanim are now forbidden to their husbands. But if there were witnesses that the women…
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Ketubot 26: A Woman in Ashkelon
Some historical context for kohanim and leviim, and who got to collect the terumah and ma'aser rishon when... Note the penalty of Ezra with regard to those who…
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Ketubot 25: Are You Sure the Kohen Is a Kohen?
A focus on terumah, with the distinction of how that was applied in the land of Israel, as compared to in Babylonia - where terumah derabbanan was in play…
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Ketubot 24: Could Kohanim Collude?
What happens when 2 people claim that each other is a kohen? Is that sufficient, or is a third person needed to corroborate, such that each person has 2…
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Ketubot 23: Women Testify
What happens if witnesses as to a woman's captivity only show up after she's already married (as per the mishnah)? The Gemara explains that the mishnah doesn't…
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Ketubot 22: Self-incrimination, to a Degree
What is a "Beit Din chatzuf"? When the court isn't quite proper, but its acts are upheld. Also, a new mishnah who speaks about herself as having been married…
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Ketubot 21: Witnesses, Judges, and Stumped Amoraim
Starting with the mishnah on the bottom of the previous daf - the case of witnesses who testify to their own handwriting and also to that if the co-witness -…
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Ketubot 20: Wherefore Mounds of Dirt?
More on witnesses, and how they prove themselves as reliable. What about when their signatures need validation? What if they are challenged? Plus, a real…
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Ketubot 19: Unreliable Documentation in Financial Halakhah
Defining and explaining the "shtar amanah" - and why a document of "trust" is not to be believed in terms of monetary transactions. How does one prove payment…
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Ketubot 18: Signing Your Life Away
What happens when two parties have a monetary claim? What level of responsibility is expected for one to be able to stake a legitimate claim? Why does the…
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Ketubot 17: All Brides Are Beautiful
A famous Beit Hillel/Beit Shammai dispute, on how one dances before a bride - what is one to say? From praise for the bride, the Gemara moves to praise for the…
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Ketubot 16: Virgin Brides
The second chapter of Ketubot! A woman who is widowed or divorced testifies that she was a virgin when they married - and the husband testifies that she was a…
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Ketubot 15: An Abandoned Baby
More on "the majority" - from its classic case of kosher butchers and one non-kosher butcher. The implications and value of the principle for Halakhah at…
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Ketubot 14: A Widow of Dough
Returning to the mamzer and the hallal. Specifically, a widow who had been married to a man from a kohen family, but of questionable lineage, for all that…
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Yevamot 13: Speaking Together (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
A case of mukat eitz, and whether she is believed (and what the value of her ketubah would be). Also, the case of a woman speaking to a man - which gives rise…