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Yevamot 12: Crying Rape Is Not Crying Wolf
3 mishnayot! The case of a man who eats in his father-in-law's home in Yehudah, specifically, after betrothal, and with no witnesses that the betrothed couple…
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Ketubot 11: Virginity: A Lack of Sexual Activity or an Intact Hymen?
Different categories of women, including converts, captives who were freed, and maidservants - who were expected to have has sexual intercourse, given the…
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Ketubot 10: Protecting the Virginity of the Virgins
Why was the ketubah instituted to begin with? What about the groom who claims she wasn't a virgin? Is he automatically believed, so he can get out of paying…
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Ketubot 9: An Open Opening and the Righteousness of King David
What happens when a bridegroom claims that his new virginal bride seemed not to be a virgin after all? Particularly when there's already strife between the…
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Ketubot 8: Celebrating Weddings
The 7 Berakhot in full. Plus, a practical account of weddings where sages said 5 or 6, and not 7. What is their disagreement? It would seem about the nature of…
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Ketubot 7: The Universal Practice of... Sex
The prohibition against the wedding night for a virgin to be on Shabbat, and permitted on a festival. But why is it permitted then? How does it apply across…
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Ketubot 6: When the Bride Isn't Ready for Marriage
Still fighting with the tech. So many apologies!! || A disturbing daf - where we begin our discussion with the Gemara's case of prepubescent marriage (on…
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Ketubot 5: When to Stick Your Fingers in Your Ears
Anne here: Apologies for the late release, and in a new masekhet, no less! My phone seems to be the culprit. Obviously, I'm working to rectify. || A…
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Ketubot 4: Sad on Your Wedding Day
When the time of severe mourning or a "chuppat niddah" changes the wedding night. Similarly, how her standing as a virgin can make a difference. Also, a focus…
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Ketubot 3: Roman Oppression of Brides-to-Be
Talking about... divorce. In the context of unavoidable circumstances. For example, when a husband gives his wife a conditional divorce, to prevent her from…
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Ketubot 2: Unforseen Circumstances
Introducing the tractate of Ketubot, including the question of defining virginity. And diving right in to the first mishnah - what day of the week is reserved…
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Yevamot 122: Bringing Peace to the World
Another daf of mishnayot (3 of them), and then closing Masekhet Yevamot. First: Testimony as to a person's death can be seen in candlelight or moonlight, or…
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Yevamot 121: Not Learning Halakhah from a Miracle
Opening with another mishnah on the identification of bodies - specifically, if one fell into water. Depending on the conditions, one may well be presumed to…
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Yevamot 120: Talmudic Forensics
The CSI episode: How those testifying to the death of a person were able to identify the given body as dead. Even seeing that wild animals were eating the…
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Yevamot 119: Starting with Co-wives, Ending with Co-wives
Starting the last chapter of Yevamot... A woman travels with both her husband and a co-wife, and when she returns, the claim is made that her husband died. Can…
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Yevamot 118: Whom Did I Betroth?
More mishnayot! Two women who are married to the same man and one claims he has died, and the other says he has not - the status of the women is largely…
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Yevamot 117: The Hatred of the Mother-in-Law
Mishnayot! A women who testifies that her husband has died can remarry, but does she get the ketubah money? It's a machloket between Beit Hillel and Beit…
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Yevamot 116: The Dangerous Grain Harvest
When a husband and wife have quarreled, it calls into question her testimony in the event if his death. But the Gemara acknowledges that bickering can be part…
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Yevamot 115: The Drama of a Sesame Plant
Cases that make the mishnah of the previous daf tangible and practical, including the case of immolation (apparently) of a man on his wedding day, where his…
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Yevamot 114: Family Dynamics
How does the Gemara approach families with different levels of observance. We also start a new perek today which explores the parameters of single witness…
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Yevamot 113: Women Want to Marry More Than Men Do
A deaf-mute woman is not entitled to a ketubah. Why not? What is the rationale? It seems to be left to the husband to decide. Illustrated by a story of R…
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Yevamot 112: Rejecting the Conspiracy Theory Case
Apologies for the late release - technical difficulties that never happened before and are unlikely to happen again. Thank you for understanding. || The end of…
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Yevamot 111: Minor Wives and Yibum (or Divorce)
1/3 of the way through the Talmud!! Another daf with 2 mishnayot, one long with little Gemara, one shorter, with a lot of Gemara. First, another case of 2…
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Yevamot 110: When Kidnapping a Bride Doesn't Work
How to change a rabbinic kiddushin to a Torah-level kiddushin? Plus, a story of kidnapping, essentially, from the moment of marriage - or chuppah, at least…
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Yevamot 109: A Sword Between His Thighs
A new mishnah! Can a couple that divorces remarry each other? How does that affect yibum? And a other mishnah: A case of two brothers who are married to two…
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Yevamot 108: Not against Her Will
A mishnah from 107b: defining a minor girl, who would then need to and be able to refuse a betrothal organized by her mother or brother. She needs to have a…
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Yevamot 107: The Daughters of Israel Are Not "Hefker"
A new chapter, a new mishnah, and a new topic: miyun - refusal. When a minor girl is in the charge of her family who wants to marry her off - she's allowed to…
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Yevamot 106: Paying Off the Yavam
During the process of yibum/chalitzah - when a yevamah refuses to stand because she's refusing yibum, and insisting on chalitzah. The sage then advises her how…
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Yevamot 105: The Curse of the House of Eli
Levi goes out to teach Torah in a village, and the people stump him with 3 questions, two of which are about chalitzah. Plus, the family of Eli (and…
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Yevamot 104: Chalitzah as It Is NOT Supposed to Be Done
2 new mishnayot, on more practical details and requirements of chalitzah. 1. Can you do chalitzah at night? Can you do chalitzah on the wrong foot? Plus, how…
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Yevamot 103: Yael's Seduction of Sisera
The Gemara springboards off the "foot" that wears the chalitzah shoe to biblical verses that include the Hebrew word, "regel" that come to be interpreted…
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Yevamot 102: Even Eliyahu Can't Reverse Chalitzah
More on the practicalities of chalitzah. To what extent does the chalitzah close the door on the relationship between yavam and yevama? Plus, testimony as to…
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Yevamot 101: Practical Chalitzah
Chapter 12! On chalitzah. The process of what happens before the court, and what kind of shoe the yavam needs to be wearing, and even what happens if he's an…
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Yevamot 100: "Maybe I'm a Kohen and Maybe I'm Not!" - Uncertain Paternity
More on how people received their terumah. Specifically, the different categories of people who can eat terumah, but can't get it in the standard way -…
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Yevamot 99: Switched at Birth
Chalitzah, "just in case" - when it's not clear that everyone's relationship is what it appears to have been. Also, a long mishnah: the cases of the "mixed-up…
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Yevamot 98: Non-Jews Don't Have Parents (halakhically)
A child born to non-Jews is understood halakhically to be not related to his father. To the extent that identical twins are not considered related. Plus, the…
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Yevamot 97: Giving Credit Where It's Due
First, a story about R. Yochanan, about attribution in his name. A concern that goes back, as it were, to King David and Psalms. Also, a new chapter, with its…
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Yevamot 96: Pushing the Parameters
3 mishnayot on the daf... Mishnah 1: Complicated scenarios to explore the parameters of testimony on a spouse's death that is determined to be incorrect…
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Yevamot 95: Returning from the Dead (with implications for your marriage)
A dispute between R. Yehudah and R. Yosei on a dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai over cases of a husband who believes his wife to be dead, and…
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Yevamot 94: Ulterior Motives
A serious challenge to the validity of one witness - but not because it's only one person, but because of who it is. Also, the opposite case - where the wife…
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Yevamot 93: The Existence of the Things That Do Not Yet Exist
First, a brief comment on Daf 91: the reading of the woman's get. Next: Establishing a vow or acquiring something that is not yet in existence in the world…
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Yevamot 92: The Court's Error
The Gemara addresses what it means for the court to have an opinion - for example, if the court stipulates that the woman who has one witness testifying that…
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Yevamot 91: When Rape Is Not at All Rape
In the case of the woman who has remarried after the testimony that her first husband has died, but not with the consent of the court - she can go back to her…
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Yevamot 90: Extreme Measures to Protect the System
The case of a man nullifying a bill of divorce in the presence of the court, while a messenger was bringing the wife the get - he can't do this (she won't know…
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Yevamot 89: Upholding Rabbinic Law over Torah Law
Why did the rabbis decide that women need a ketubah in marriage to begin with? And when is the absence of a ketubah helpful? Also, a new understanding of our…
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Yevamot 88: The Original Agunot
How stringent are the standards of accepting the testimony of those who testify that a woman's husband has died? There are advantages and disadvantages to…
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Yevamot 87: The Limbo of a Husband Who Goes Missing
A series of marriage, a series of children, and how the status changes in her relationship to kohanim change her permissions, as it were, for terumah. Also…
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Yevamot 86: When Kohanim Are Called "Leviim"
Revisiting: Who can eat terumah? Specifically, the women who may have a relationship with a kohen, in various stages (including pregnancy), or various…
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Yevamot 85: How Pure Are Your Marriages?
R. Pappa and R. Hina arrived in Hintzvu, where R. Idi bar Avin lived. When they got there, they were asked: Can the daughters of kohanim who are eligible to…
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Yevamot 84: A Prohibited Husband and a Permitted Yavam
Chapter 9! A very long mishnah... Categories of women who were permitted to their husbands and prohibited to the yavam. And the reverse: prohibited to the…
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Yevamot 83: The Questionable Father of 7
More from Rabbi Yosei. [Who's Who: R. Yosei Ben Halafta] On prolonged labor, and how it relates to grafting, from a halakhic perspective. Plus, the tumtum, one…
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Yevamot 82: Default to Male
More on whether terumah in this day and age (post-Temple) is d'Orayta or deRabbanan. [What's What: Seder Olam (Rabbah), here, unusually, used to support…
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Yevamot 81: Being Able to Count
More on terumah, in a new mishnah: a saris chamah kohen who marries the daughter of a Yisrael... Can she eat terumah?! Or if he's an androgynous. Or a tummy…
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Yevamot 80: The Twelve Months of Gestation
Returning to a baby born in the 8th month, which is considered a danger to the child, and perhaps the mother. Can such a child survive? Plus, the prolonging of…
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Yevamot 79: The Sons of Saul
More on King David and the Givonim. Also, the disturbing story of the sons of King Saul and their maltreatment of converts. Also, more on the men whose injured…
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Yevamot 78: Generations Who Can't Marry In
Converts and their subsequent generations. What happens when a second-generation Egyptian convert marries a first-generation Egyptian convert? Is their child…
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Yevamot 77: The Inner Honor of the Daughter of the King
More on Ammon and Moav. Why are they excluded? Plus, why is a Jewish woman supposed to say within? Also, King David's prayers in Psalms, and some of the…
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Yevamot 76: Those Who Can't Marry In
Two mishnayot: Several parties are prohibited from marrying those who are born Jewish, but can still marry converts to Judaism or freed female slaves…
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Yevamot 75: Damage to a Man's Reproductive Organs
Some opening audio issue, but it resolves quickly. Why do we need 3 verses to teach us about terumah? The Gemara explains why we need all 3. Also, the next…
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Yevamot 74: Becoming Pure
Resh Lakish's explication of the text, in providing the source for ma'aser sheni becoming impure and then available for use to anoint one's body. Which aligns…