Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

Two types of transactional documents • When is the more complex document promoted and why? • Fraud prevention

Ambiguous deathbed gifts • A disgruntled litigant might not float your boat

Wedding gift refunds • When are a bride's blemishes grounds for divorce without requiring the husband to pay Kesuba? • When does a husband lose the right to inherit his wife? • When is a will honored and when is it voided?

Estate distributions • May the oldest brother pay for fine clothing from the estate? • Are wedding expenditures during the father's lifetime indicative of future wedding expenses to be paid from the estate? • A husband's rights to his wife's properties are great, but his father-in-law's widow's rights are greater • Estate size can impact equitabe distribution between sons and daughters

When does a husband writing all his assets over to his wife result in a full gift and when does it result in her appointment as steward over all his assets? • When a woman is gifted all of her husband's assets, when and why is she at risk of losing the entire estate? • When a husband creates a partnership, endowing his wife with a share among his children, what impact does that have on her ability...

From which assets does the firstborn receive a double portion? • From which assets does a widower inherit from his wife?

How was the land of Israel inherited? • Grace, an antidote to resentment

How do we know that a man inherits his mother? • Dayo, limiting the extension of a Kal Vachomer (a fortiori) • A messy controversy: Does a mother bequeath to her children equally, or to her sons before daughters? • Does a mother ever bequeath a double portion? How do we know that a man inherits his wife? • Is the husband's inheritance Biblical or Rabbinic?

If you were an ox, how could you develop an appreciation for the glamourless cattle prod? • Discerning decisive truth among conflicting theoretical truths

When selling an unmeasured field, when is the estimated yet imprecise parcel size binding on both parties, and when are adjustments needed? • Do the same parameters apply to larger transactions? • Price gouging on real property • When adjustments are warranted, when is the purchase price increased and when is part of the property returned to the seller?

When should the blessing borei peri hagafen be recited over wine dreg extract? • What types of wine should not be used for libations but may be used for kiddush, consecration of the hallowed day?

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When is it permissible to repurpose and maintain a faulty measure? • Limits on altering measures and currency values • Limits on profit margins • No intervention can be more effective than a calculated intervention towards maintaining lower prices in the longer term • Restrictions on exports of basic necessities when supply is tight help maintain local affordability

The Talmudic debate about what King Solomon sought, yet was denied • Man's potential and the Messianic era

When selling a group of trees, when is the land between them included? • Four types of transactions: When can the Seller, Buyer, neither or both back out?

King Solomon, master of learning and sharing wisdom, was fueled by relentless drive • When is self-promotion appropriate?

What type of Kinyan, symbolic act, can effect the transfer of a boat, or an animal, or a prommisory note?

When selling a field, what is included and what is excluded?

Navigating ambiguities of real estate contracts

The tragic dissolution of man • Look critically at the opportunity costs of following every impulse and desire

A detailed examination of the process by which a non-Jew sells his real property to a Jew • Dina d'Malchusa Dina; when do governmental regulations override the defaults of Jewish law? • Laws pertaining to two adjacent fields owned by the same owner

Death: the temporary divergence between body and soul • What happens to the body and soul after death? • Resurrection is by Divine invitation to ascend from the grave

Why is a sale binding when there are elements of coersion exerted upon the seller? • Willingness comingled with coersion in bringing a sacrifice or granting a bill of divorce • What happens when the groom forces the bride to accept his proposal?

Remember God while articulate, and of sound mind • King Solomon guides the nation in sweeping terms to serve God in a state of cohesive vigor, before malaise and societal decay set in • If we had listened to God, Nevuchadnezzar would not have been goaded to destroy the temple

Establishment of possession requires a rightful claim • The squatter's mindset • Mistaken forgiveness • Consensus within contradictory testimony • What circumstances would invalidate the establishment of presumed possession?