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Yevamot 73: When Is Bikkurim Like Ma'aser Sheni?
A detour to some agricultural mitzvot, albeit still as compared to terumah. Ma'aser sheni, bikkurim, etc. Plus, a person in the acute period of mourning - an…
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Yevamot 72: The North Wind
On not circumcising in the Midbar, after leaving Egypt. Categories of those with physical issues that may prevent one's eligibility to eat terumah.
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Yevamot 71: A Baby's Korban Pesach
A classic dispute between R. Akiva and R. Eliezer, with regard to explication of the biblical text. Also, delaying a sick baby's brit milah for 7 days, which…
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Yevamot 70: Disqualifying Kohanim from Terumah
Closing the 7th chapter... On a strange situation where the difficult status grandson permits the grandmother to eat terumah, but the kohen gadol grandson…
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Yevamot 69: Second Generation Edomites (and Others)
Those kohanim whose progeny are to be disqualified from eating terumah will disqualify their mother - according to R. Yosei. The machloket here pertains to how…
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Yevamot 68: An Extra "Vav"
About that 9-year-and-one-day-old boy, in the case when he has questionable status - his child cannot marry into the kehunah (with some machloket on the…
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Yevamot 67: The Influence of a Fetus
A new mishnah - a bat Yisrael whose husband is a kohen, and he dies while she is pregnant - a case that raises all kinds of questions about the status that the…
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Yevamot 66: Usufruct Property (and the other kind too)
Chapter 7! And a new mishnah: Who can't eat terumah, even once married to a kohen? Plus, defining nichsei m'log and nichsei tzon barzel. And the real-life…
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Yevamot 65: "P'ru Ur'vu" Is Plural!
More on p'ru ur'vu... A man is commanded in this mitzvah, and women are not, according to the Tanna Kama, but R. Yochanan ben Beroka says women are obligated…
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Yevamot 64: God Wants the Prayers of the Righteous
More aggadah - familiar interpretations of Genesis, for example...where Avraham takes Hagar to wife after 10 years of no children with Sarah. The man's…
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Yevamot 63: What Could Be Worse Than Death?!
A daf of aggadah...5 statements of R. Eliezer, including about the creation of Woman, and Adam's extreme means of recognizing her as his mate. Also, a…
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Yevamot 62: Rabbi Akiva's Students
Be fruitful and multiply - 2 interesting aggadot involving R. Yochanan. Do children born prior to one's conversion to Judaism count for the mitzvah? Also…
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Yevamot 61: The Saving Graces of the Priestly Marriage Practicalities
4 mishnayot! Practical details about kohanim and whom they can marry. For example, a kohen who is betrothed a widow, and is later appointed to be the kohen…
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Yevamot 60: A Lot of Questions and a Spiritual Truth Test
A kohen whose sister dies... Recognizing that kohanim don't become impure in mourning anyone other than the 7 relatives, but the sister seems to be an…
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Yevamot 59: The Restrictive Marital Status of the High Priest
A new mishnah - this time, on the marriage restrictions on the kohen gadol, the high priest. He is not permitted to marry a divorcee... Nor a grown woman…
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Yevamot 58: The Woman's Right to Eat Terumah
Issues of relationships (betrothal, for example) that are inappropriate with a kohen, but now she's in one - and even if she's the daughter of a kohen - can…
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Yevamot 57: Married at 3?!
Disqualifications for marriage - with a focus on a "patzua daka," a man with crushed testicles, and the ramifications of this status, especially if the man is…
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Yevamot 56: Kohanim and Marital Complications
When a bat Yisrael marries a kohen, is then entitled to eat terumah, and he is then excluded from being able to eat terumah - what about her? What if he dies…
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Yevamot 55: Another NSFW
The punishment for "all the prohibited sexual relationships" is stated as karet, and then the punishment for prohibition of one's sister is separate. Why? What…
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Yevamot 54: The X-Rated Spotlight on Yibum
A little sexually explicit... as is technically reasonable, given the essence of yibum. To what extent does yibum take place if either party is asleep? What if…
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Yevamot 53: Complicating Yibum or Chalitzah
When a yavam and a yevama consummate the relationship, that's yibum and now they're married. If they do chalitzah, they're done. But that seems to be only when…
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Yevamot 52: Rabbinic Muscle: Lashes
What happens when the couple that has ma'amar between them sleep together before they formalize yibum? A discussion of lashes - makat mardut and the other…
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Yevamot 51: The Consensus on Levirate Betrothal
NOTE: It's not you, it's us. Several events coincided to render the past several weeks very hectic for us (in different ways). Please God, we'll go back to…
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Yevamot 50: How Final Are the Yibum Options?
The fifth chapter! Plus, the options of ma'amar, get, chalitzah... and, of course, yibum. And how the may follow one from the other, as it happens. Note - a…
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Yevamot 49: Who Is a Mamzer?
A new mishnah! And more on mamzerim, even an introduction to the status. Plus, a genealogy scroll that includes mention of a person as "mamzer." Also, the…
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Yevamot 48: Captives and Converts
The daf discusses Eshet Yifat Toar with an interesting twist from Rabbi Akiva. The daf ends with a theological discussion about converts.
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Yevamot 47: The Self-Incrimination of a Convert
Continuing the conversion conversation... How to be sure that a conversion in Israel will be accepted outside the land? Including the case of one who claims…
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Yevamot 46: Women Can't Be Circumcised
A long daf... When Jewish women became pregnant from partial converts (men who had been circumcised, but not yet dunked in a mikveh). Similar issues turn up…
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Yevamot 45: Was Rav a Bigot? (God forbid, of course)
Cases a union between a non-Jewish father and a Jewish mother - what are the implications for the children (or are there any)? Rav takes a strong position that…
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Yevamot 44: Rabbi Akiva's Mamzerim
A case: 4 brothers married to 4 women, and some of the brothers died... Can a brother do yibum more than once? When is chalitzah done instead? What does an…
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Yevamot 43: Who Waited 3 Months, and for What?
More on the methodology of halakhic decisions, via a case of ritual impurity and the possibility thereof for carding combs for flax and wool. And the…
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Yevamot 42: Tracking the 7- and 9-Month Babies
Two scientific points of interest - the 7 or 9 month baby, suggesting 1 month wait is all that is needed to determine paternity, not 3 months. What are the…
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Yevamot 41: Elijah the Prophet to Clarify Which Woman Is Which
The ramifications of chalitzah for the relatives of the pair doing chalitzah. Also, what happens when a widow awaits yibum or chalitzah, and those other…
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Yevamot 40: Inheritance Rules: A Key Element of Yibum
First, a timely comment on chametz on the altar, and matzah too, for that matter, for an episode release after the first day of Pesach (as that day's daf)…
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Yevamot 39: Can You Do Yibum Instead of Me?
Is a yibum marriage a full marriage? For leaving it, it would seem so - requiring divorce and not chalitzah. And the woman who is now divorced from the yavam…
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Yevamot 38: Complicating Inheritance
Cases of questionable inheritance, which need some real calculation and navigation to determine who should inherit what (particularly property). Plus, a new…
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Yevamot 37: Those Viable Babies
The babies who are born at 7 months or 9 months - with a paternity question. Why get into the 7-month baby possibility? That seems to be introducing…
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Yevamot 36: The Sadness of Yibum
On Resh Lakish, in contrast to R. Yochanan - on the 3 times we follow Resh Lakish. Including regarding inheritance regulations, as compared to those of a gift…
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Yevamot 35: Contraception, Talmud-style
The case of a female convert or a freed maidservant... With the inappropriate presumption, though possibly accurate, that prior to their change in status, they…
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Yevamot 34: Getting Pregnant the First Time
More on two women who marry two men, and get switched before the nisuin part.... Which leads to a broader discussion of one trying to do a mitzvah who ends up…
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Yevamot 33: Talmudic Clarity? Bait and Switch
More on simultaneous prohibitions. How the dispute between R. Hiya and Bar Kappara seems to ride on two different teachings by R. Yehudah HaNasi, respectively…
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Yevamot 32: Once Forbidden, Always Forbidden
If a brother did ma'amar with his brother's yibum, and then divorced that Levirate betrothed, leaves the possibility of yibum for the third brother, with the…
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Yevamot 31: An Absence of Real Life Yibum Stories
When it's not clear that a couple has either gotten married or (a different couple) divorced... where witnesses are essential. Plus, the case of Bar Shtaya and…
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Yevamot 30: Adding a Non-Sister to the Mix
5 mishnayot, with templates of 3 brothers, two of whom marry two sisters, and the third brother marries an unrelated woman. The cases play out the different…
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Yevamot 29: The Strength (and Weakness) of Ma'amar
A new mishnah - that facilitates a deeper dive into ma'amar, the Levirate betrothal. Via a case of 3 brothers, and the complications there that get in the way…
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Yevamot 28: Abaye Didn’t Really Rape That Woman
Trigger warning there is a discussion about rape in today’s daf. In today’s daf we learn who can decide what is in the canon of Mishnah and who can argue with…
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Yevamot 27: The Strength of Bonds
A case where chalitzah is expected, but the man gives a get instead -- or where there's a yibum betrothal (ma'amar). Consider the layering of procedure and…
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Yevamot 26: Yibum Word Problems
Finishing chapter 2, and starting chapter 3, with a mishnah apiece. First, a case where a woman was able to leave her marriage - are any of the people involved…
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Yevamot 25: Permitting and Forbidding
The daf discusses a few different scenarios where a woman is released from her marriage but someone involved with the end of her marriage may not marry her…
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Yevamot 24: Converting for the Sake of Marriage
On the mitzvah that is on the eldest of brothers to do yibum. Plus, what is the purpose of yibum?! (Finally?) What does it mean to carry on a dead brother's…
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Yevamot 23: When You're Not Sure Whom You Betrothed
A study of the divergent opinions of R. Yosi and the sages on the progeny of a non-Jewish maidservant, or of an idolatress. The child apparently inherits the…
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Yevamot 22: Not My Brother, Not My Father Either
On the status of converts, particularly with regard to the secondary forbidden relationships. Also, a mishnah: how different statuses of one's brother have…
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Yevamot 21: The Family Compound
King Solomon and his proverbs and the way he gave "handles" to the "basket" of Yevamot (among other details of halakhah. Note also the list of the secondary…
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Yevamot 20: The Mitzvah of Halitzah
A new mishnah that establishes some principles about a yevamah... which is established by means of hypothetical examples that can be head-spinning, to be…
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Yevamot 19: With or Without Consent: Ma'amar
The kind of case we've been dealing with, but with ma'amar, not full yibum - with an entrance to probe R. Shimon's opinion further. Also, more on ma'amar -…
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Yevamot 18: 5 Sages and Their Approaches
A lengthy discussion on how to understand the mishnah: R. Huna, R. Yehudah, R. Yehudah Ben Beteira, R. Meir, and Rabban Gamliel. So first, a view of each of…
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Yevamot 17: Matrilineal Descent - Talmud-style
Concerns about those with questionable lineage, which sparks a discussion about the 10 Tribes that were exiled in the era of the prophets. Including the…
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Yevamot 16: Jewish Geography, Talmud-style
The question of whether the co-wives of a daughter would be permitted to the brothers... As answered in the time of R. Dosa ben Hyrcanus, in accord with Beit…
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Yevamot 15: How D'Ya Like Them Olives?
More on Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel... Specifically, did the members of Beit Shammai actually follow the approaches of Beit Shammai. Note also the affinity of…
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Yevamot 14: Not So Kumbaya
More on the disputes of Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai, with the serious implications of a potential "mamzer" status for a child of a forbidden relationship (or…