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 ends with a clarification of the Mishnah.
Jun 20, 2023•14 min
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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 importance of names in the Get. The second Mishnah takes us back to Nedarim and Ketubot
Jun 19, 2023•19 min
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.
Jun 18, 2023•15 min
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 same Get can be used again once the husband voided the Get.
Jun 17, 2023•15 min
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 a time frame on that kind of given - often only the first 24 hours. Note the brevity of the mishnah. Also, a discussion of the east wind. And winds coming from other directions, and how strong they can be, as well as how much impact they can have. Plus, Geneivah, who on the one hand seems to have learned a lot of Torah, but he's known to ...
Jun 16, 2023•22 min•Season 19Ep. 31
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 inheritance... including questions of borrowing and lending in the context of the kehunah. Also, getting permission from a debtors heirs to continue the terms of a loan. Plus kindness to the orphaned heirs to help them pay back the debt.
Jun 15, 2023•11 min•Season 19Ep. 30
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 - depending on the husband's designation of him as a shaliach. Also, establishing the power of the shaliach.
Jun 14, 2023•18 min•Season 19Ep. 29
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 conditions (eg, one's right to eat terumah). Plus, a key dispute that reflects personal approach, within the debate. Plus, why only men did semicha (laying on if hands) for the sin-offering, and women did not. [Who's Who: R. Yehudah ben Prata] Also, different cases, including a besieged town and a ship at sea... when does one presume the p...
Jun 13, 2023•25 min•Season 19Ep. 28
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 the interim, for example? What happens if the players in the get have the same names as others who are getting divorced. Also, Rabbi Zeira finds a contradiction to our mishnah in a baraita. Which turns out to be a bit lesser as compared to a mishnah contradicting a mishnah... But the baraita is the clearer contradiction this time. Which h...
Jun 12, 2023•16 min•Season 19Ep. 27
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 date and so on. But templates don't really work for gittin. Plus, how the get is actually written. Also, what does it mean that the sages decreed... They wanted to prevent quarreling. They wanted to prevent conflicts over the same name. Or putting the divorcing couple on the spot. Plus, "agunah" (in contrast to modern examples). How iron-ti...
Jun 11, 2023•12 min•Season 19Ep. 26
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 to greet him first - the Gemara says, no. The get needs to be written in her name - they can't discover after the fact which wife was, lo and behold, the divorced one. But there many other circumstances where retroactive clarification does work.
Jun 10, 2023•17 min•Season 19Ep. 25
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 get is written in the name of the woman, but someone else has the same name - can it be used for the person with the same name? Plus, every time a get is invalidated, she still can't marry a kohen.
Jun 09, 2023•15 min•Season 19Ep. 24
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 that is that the writing matters less than the signing of the document. Note, of course, that the get must be written for her sake. Also, everyone can deliver a get, except for 5 categories of people including one who is blind and one who is a non-Jew. But what if one of these ineligible people changes status? There are circumstances that...
Jun 08, 2023•17 min•Season 19Ep. 23
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 plants their primary nourishment - ground or air? We might have resolved the science of this by today, but they were figuring it all out, still. It becomes a real puzzle when to tithe, but the focus is definitely on the land of Israel. Also, the injunction against writing a divorce on a substance that invites forgery. Which brings us to 3 diff...
Jun 07, 2023•18 min•Season 19Ep. 22
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 things, and the biblical support for this approach. Plus, the counter-use of the same verses for the opposite view. Also, a new mishnah on the get itself - can't be attached to the ground - and when it can be detached from the ground itself. Plus, all the details that go into it.
Jun 06, 2023•15 min•Season 19Ep. 21
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 ketubah? Also, figuring out Rava's position, his argument on himself, and the way a woman might give up the value of her ketubah for a get (not written on gold). Also, what about writing a get on a Canaanite slave's hand - now what?
Jun 05, 2023•17 min•Season 19Ep. 20
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 whether that includes living creatures and (lehavdil) slaves. Plus, R. Yehudah, who took great pains to read and sign his own documents, even when he could have managed otherwise. Also, when confusion creeps in to the delivery of a get - depending on the shaliach, on a throwing by the husband, etc. Plus, a whole lot of unusual cases.
Jun 04, 2023•19 min•Season 19Ep. 19
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 it's written? Plus, a discussion of partial payment... of the ketubah. Also, when does the get need to be signed? Right when it was written? Or in the next day? 10 days later? Plus, what about group signing?
Jun 03, 2023•23 min•Season 19Ep. 18
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. Also, a new mishnah and the requirement that a date must be included on documents, at writing and signing, which means the timing matters on a Jewish calendar in terms of the date switch at sundown. Also, Abaye and R. Yosef on issues of dates of the bills of divorce - even of the get isn't good, for some of these issues, a future child is ...
Jun 02, 2023•23 min•Season 19Ep. 17
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 in a mikveh of exactly 40 se'ah. Also, the case of 2 people bringing the divorce from overseas - with more factors to potentially invalidate the divorce. Plus, when the rabbis jump in to protect all documents.
Jun 01, 2023•12 min•Season 19Ep. 16
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, including protecting other documents from a leniency that applies only in the case of divorce. Also, borrowing from other halakhic areas: how arenas combine or divide with legal partitions, as per eruvin. To what extent can the different arenas allow various parts of a scenario to combine.
May 31, 2023•16 min•Season 19Ep. 15
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. Plus, the logical inference of "migo," or "since." Also, the story of R. Sheshet, his consignment cloaks, and R. Yosef bar Chama as the collector of funds. Also, the difference between "taking" and "acquiring." Plus, what happens if something happens to the sender or recipient along the way? A good deal of discretion in these matters was left...
May 30, 2023•20 min•Season 19Ep. 14
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 the recipient(s), and there's no need to give the document - in contrast to one who owes money and is using a shaliach to deliver. Even after the man dies, the funds need to reach their designated recipient. So the Gemara attempts to apply the case to flesh out the details in a way that makes sense. Also, the case of the creditor, the deb...
May 29, 2023•18 min•Season 19Ep. 13
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 himself or for his master? Plus, what happens if it's a man's wife who is exiled to the city of refuge? Who and how is she provided for? Can she even go out to work? Shouldn't she be staying at home? (No) Also, what stipulations can be made between a master and his slave? Plus, issues of compensation - medical expenses? Lost earnings? What find...
May 28, 2023•22 min•Season 19Ep. 12
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 the Persian to be sure they're accurate? Indeed. How to ensure that the documents can't be forged? Also, at what point can one who's giving a get retract the document? For divorce, it's possible to do, but not for freeing a slave - where the shaliach accepts the document on behalf of the slave, as it's to the slave's benefit. But divorce is ...
May 27, 2023•15 min•Season 19Ep. 11
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 by the Gemara. Also, documents that are produced in non-Jewish courts are valid - with exception. Plus, "dina de-malkhuta dina" - the law of the land is the law. Plus, speech as speech acts.
May 27, 2023•17 min•Season 19Ep. 10
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? Also, a new mishnah: one who delivers a get from overseas, but without a declaration. If there are witnesses, that works. But what if one is deaf? (In the ancient category and all that entailed). Plus, exceptional cases.
May 25, 2023•14 min•Season 19Ep. 9
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 grant him property, for example. With parallels to the woman and her bill of divorcement. Plus, a comment on the term "emancipation."
May 24, 2023•15 min•Season 19Ep. 8
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 upsetting him are unclear, but he is clearly bothered by them. The response: even when you know you have enemies, keep yourself quiet. Plus, follow-up on the idea that God will ease the unpleasant situation, instead of people taking matters into their own hands to bring the other parties to the authorities. Also, a discussion of the crowns th...
May 23, 2023•20 min•Season 19Ep. 7
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 does this passage teach about the relationship between Eretz Yisroel and Bavel.
May 22, 2023•22 min•Season 19Ep. 6
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