Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Today's daf is sponsored by Emma Rinberg in loving memory of her father, Dr. Eric Glick, Yitzhak Nisan Ben Etta Faiga v'Yaacov on his 33rd yahrzeit.  Today's daf is sponsored by Elisa Hartstein in honor of her daughter Dalia who finishes 5 years of dedicated army service in the IAF today. "Also in grateful appreciation of all our chayalim and chayalot, past and present who make our lives here in I...

Can a master sell the potential k'nas (fine) payment that the master would receive in the event that an ox gored his/her slave and killed him? They bring a source to answer the question, but it is inconclusive. There is a debate regarding a half-slave/half-free man who betroths a woman or a man who betroths a woman who is half maidservant/half-free - is the kiddushin valid? Is it the same as one w...

Study Guide Gittin 42 Rabba holds that the debate between Rebbi and the rabbis about whether one can free a slave partly is only when the owner frees part and remains owner over the other part, but if the owner sold the other part, all would agree that the slave would be partially free. Abaye raises a contradiction to Rabba from two contradictory braitot, claiming that the only resolution is to sa...

If a slave is used as a designated payment for a loan ( apotiki ) and the master frees the slave, the slave has no responsibility to the creditor. However, the rabbis instituted a takana and force the master to free him. To compensate the creditor, the slave writes a promissory note for his value. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel holds that the one who frees the slave writes the promissory note. Rav and...

Study Guide Gittin 40 Today's daf is sponsored by Rabbi Joel and Shulamith Cohn in loving memory of Rabbi Dr. Akiba Predmesky on his yahrzeit. What type of actions would be an indication that the master has freed the slave? If the owner gave up financial rights to the slave, can the owner or the son (in the case of the death of the owner) redeem the slave to permit marriage with a Jew or does they...

Today's daf is sponsored by Gitta and David Neufeld in loving memory of Gitta's father, Yosef ben Menachem Mendal v'Pesha. "Tatty was so proud of learning, be it secular or Jewish. He always told us how he envied us our Jewish education, which the Nazis and Communists managed to deprive him of.  Unbelievably, he left cheder - and formal Jewish education - when he started learning Mishna, yet his d...

Study Guide Gittin 38 Today's daf is sponsored by Art Gould in loving memory of Carol Joy Robinson, Karina Gola bat Huddah v'Yehudah Tzvi. "My beloved bride of almost 50 years. Tomorrow, Shabbat, we would have been married 50 years on the secular calendar.  It's no accident that Joy was Carol's middle name. She brought joy to everyone who knew her.  I will be forever grateful to HaShem for droppin...

Today's daf is sponsored by Natanya Slomowitz in loving memory of her mother, Haviva Lilka Bat Necha and Avraham.  Today's daf is sponsored by Tina Lamm in celebration of the engagement of her daughter, Devorah, to Daniel Battat of Jerusalem! Mazal tov! What is the etymology of the word pruzbol ? Orphans do not need a pruzbol to collect their father's loans as they are considered under the court's...

Today's daf is sponsored by Phyllis Hecht. "Mizmor l'todah- אוֹדְךָ ה' אלקי בְּכָל לְבָבִי וַאֲכַבְּדָה שִׁמְךָ לְעוֹלָם to my fabulous co-Chashmonaim Daffers, to my remarkable Hadran virtual chevrutas, to my mentor-one of a kind-Rabbanit Michelle. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all you have done for me over the past year. One year ago today was the first day of the rest of my life...

A widow can only collect her ketuba money from orphans by taking an oath (just like all creditors who collect from orphans on their father's debts). However, the rabbis would not permit widows to take oaths as they were concerned about false oaths. Why were they specifically concerned about widows and not about divorcees? Rabban Gamliel instituted a takana that widows could collect ketuba money by...

Rav Nachman held like Rebbi on both issues - that one who cancels a get in a court, even after Rabban Gamliel's takana , the cancellation will be effective, and one can cancel some of the witnesses not in the presence of the others. A contradiction is raised against Rav Nachman , as elsewhere he rules the one needs to upholds the power of the court when it comes to dividing up the property of orph...

Study Guide Gittin 33 This week's learning is sponsored by Bob & Paula Cohen in loving memory of Chaim Avraham HaKohen ben Alter Gershon HaKohen.  Today's daf is sponsored by Sylvia Klein in loving memory of her brother, Bobby Klein. "Bobby taught us love, acceptance, and compassion. We miss you all these years later."  What proof does Rav Nachman bring to show that two people can count as a beit...

How does a husband cancel a get ? At what stage can it be canceled? Originally he could cancel the get (before it reached the wife) by going in front of the beit din but Rabban Gamliel instituted a takana that one could no longer cancel the get in that way, as the wife may not hear the get was canceled and would think she was divorced. Which wording is effective and which wording would not be effe...

Today's daf is sponsored by Hope Perry in honor of Katherine Bellilty. "Thank you for inspiring my learning and my neshama always. Much love!"  From where do we derive that the owner of the produce can separate the teruma of the maaser of a Levite even before it gets into the hands of the Levite? If one sets aside produce to use as teruma and maaser of the produce that they will bring in later on...

This week's learning is sponsored in loving memory of Miriam David, Malkah bat Michael v'Esther, on her 7th Yahrzeit, which took place on the 5th of Sivan. With love from her children and grandchildren. If a husband makes a condition in the get , such as, if I do not come back within thirty days the get is effective, and he does not return due to circumstances beyond his control - is the get valid...

The Mishna said that one who is convicted in a court is not fully presumed dead. There are two versions of Rav Yosef's limitation of this Mishna - whether specifically in a Jewish court or specifically in a Gentile court. The sources that were brought to question one understanding are then brought to support the other. Can a messenger who is meant to deliver a get appoint a new messenger in his/he...

Study Guide Gittin 28 The Mishna states that we presume one is alive even if one is sick, old, or went abroad. Therefore, a messenger can deliver a get without being concerned that the husband who was ill or elderly died in the interim, a woman can eat teruma even if her husband who was a kohen went abroad and perhaps died, and the kohanim can offer in the Temple a sin offering sent from abroad wi...

If the messenger loses the get and then finds it, under what circumstances can we assume it was the same get and wasn't switched with another? Our Mishna rules that it must be found immediately or in a container into which the messenger had placed it, or if it had identifying signs. A Mishna in Bava Metzia 18a is brought as one can infer from there that if the husband wanted to use the get after i...

This week's learning is sponsored by Judy and Zev Berman in honor of Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin on the occasion of her celebration of a significant birthday. "We take pride in having given her a shas on the occasion of her birthday over 3 decades ago and see how far Michelle and her family have taken the learning of Torah shebe'al pe . May she celebrate many more years of learning and avoda to klal...

Study Guide Gittin 25 There are four opinions about whether a get that was not written li'shma disqualifies the woman from being married to a kohen. The debate is about which cases of li'shma , if any, would disqualify and which would not. Why? Rabbi Yochanan's opinion is consistent with his opinion regarding the distribution of inheritance property. Why was it necessary for him to teach both case...

The Gemara brings support for Abaye's explanation that our Mishna is referring to a case where the get was brought from outside of Israel from a braita and from the language in our Mishna. How can Rav Yosef explain our Mishna according to his approach? In which case would a woman bringing her own get from outside of Israel need to say "in front of me it was written..."? Why would she need to do th...

Study Guide Gittin 23 Today's daf is sponsored by the Billets, Cohns and Hararis in loving memory of their dear friend Tova Rhein z"l on her yahrzeit.  How can we allow those without understanding (like a minor, deaf-mute) to write the get if it needs to be written li'shma ?There are three different answers to resolve this difficulty. Who can be a messenger to bring a get ? Why is a blind person n...

Today's daf is sponsored by the Hadran Women of Long Island as a zechut for a refua shelaima bikarov for Yakira Liba bat Sara Gita, beloved granddaughter of our friend Tzippy Wolkenfeld. May our learning be a zechut for her and all cholei Yisrael . Can a man give a get to his wife written on a perforated pot? Can he write it on the leaves of a plant that are in a perforated pot? What are the laws...

English Study Guide Gittin 21 Can we assume that a woman knows that if she provides the object on which the get will be written, she needs to first give it to her husband with a kinyan (an act of acquiring) so that he can own it when he gives it to her? If a husband writes the get on his servant and then gives his slave as a gift to his wife, is the get effective immediately (before the slave reac...

Today's daf is sponsored by Meryll Levine Page in loving memory of her father, Yosef Michael haLevi, on his 14th yahrzeit. "Our dad set us on the derekh by modeling and encouraging both study and tzedakah." A man gave a sefer Torah to his wife and said it was her get . Rav Yosef indicated that there were three reasons why this could not possibly be effective. Rav Chisda attempted to connect a deba...