Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Shelley and Jerry Gornish in loving memory of their dear grandson, Oz Wilchek, on his sixth yahrzeit.  Today's daf is sponsored by Harriet Hartman in loving memory of Moshe Hartman. "In life, you expanded my horizons beyond all expectations. In your honor, I now feel my life expanding beyond all expectations through Hadran's Daf Yomi. Thank yo...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Shelley and Jerry Gornish in loving memory of their dear grandson, Oz Wilchek, on his sixth yahrzeit.  Today's daf is sponsored by Harriet Hartman in loving memory of Moshe Hartman. "In life, you expanded my horizons beyond all expectations. In your honor, I now feel my life expanding beyond all expectations through Hadran's Daf Yomi. Thank yo...

Presentation in PDF format This week's learning is sponsored by Judy Tydor Schwartz in honor of her birthday. "With love and gratitude for my incredible daughters Beki and Rina who are learning Daf Yomi with Hadran, and in memory of my unforgettable mother, Shirley K. Tydor, who would have loved Hadran!" In what cases do we accept the testimony of a rival wife to contradict the other wife's testim...

A woman is believed to say that her husband died in order to remarry. But can she also get her ketuba money? On what does it depend? There are certain female relatives that are not trusted to testify about the death of one's husband as there is enmity between them and they may testify falsely in order to ensure she will have to get divorced from her husband. Is there more than just the one listed...

Today's daf is sponsored by Sara Berelowitz in honor of her granddaughter Avishag Sterman on her Bat Mitzvah! Today's daf is sponsored by Susannah & Bernie Goldstein in honor of their children Eliana & Benny who went back to Camp Ramah in the Poconos this week, for the summer. "We're so proud of you! Wishing you & all the tzevet and chanichim a fun, safe, & healthy summer. Does one need to be conc...

Today's daf is sponsored by Sara Berelowitz in honor of her granddaughter Avishag Sterman on her Bat Mitzvah! Today's daf is sponsored by Susannah & Bernie Goldstein in honor of their children Eliana & Benny who went back to Camp Ramah in the Poconos this week, for the summer. "We're so proud of you! Wishing you & all the tzevet and chanichim a fun, safe, & healthy summer. Does one need to be conc...

Today's daf is sponsored by Sara Berelowitz in honor of her granddaughter Avishag Sterman on her Bat Mitzvah! Today's daf is sponsored by Susannah & Bernie Goldstein in honor of their children Eliana & Benny who went back to Camp Ramah in the Poconos this week, for the summer. "We're so proud of you! Wishing you & all the tzevet and chanichim a fun, safe, & healthy summer. Does one need to be conc...

This month's learning is dedicated by Bracha Ollech in memory of her mother, Ruth Tager, Rachel Paya bat Feiga Baila. This month's learning is sponsored by Joanna Rom and Steven Goldberg in loving memory of Steve's mother Shirley "Nana" Goldberg (Sura Tema bat Chaim v'Hanka) who passed away last week, just a few weeks after a rousing celebration for her 95th birthday. "Known among the Daf Zoomers...

Presentation in PDF format A story is told of a case where they lost the keys to the Beit Midrash and they needed to carry keys on Shabbat from the public domain in order to open the Beit Midrash. They sent children to go to that area, intending for them to notice the keys and bring them. The rabbi who suggested this must hold that the courts are not commanded to prevent minors from transgressing....

Different types of marriages that have/do not have validity on a rabbinic level are compared to each other. Why is marriage with a deaf-mute considered marriage while one with a minor male is not? Why can one do mi'un from a marriage when the woman is a minor but not if she is deaf? Why can a minor eat truma if she is married to a kohen while a deaf-mute cannot? Why does a woman get a ketuba when...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Tina Lamm in honor of the "Tzevet Yevamot." "Their brilliant graphics, along with Rabbanit Michelle's teaching, literally saved me as we learned this difficult, but rewarding, masechet. Someone ought to design for them a graphic with a superhero cape!"  If the yabam and yevama have moved in together with the purposes of performing the mitzvah...

Presentation in PDF format This week's learning is sponsored by the congregation of Keneseth Israel, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in honor of the retirement of Rabbi Seth Phillips. This week's learning is sponsored by Joy Benatar in loving memory of her mother, Miriam Quint David, Malkah bat Michael v'Esther, on her sixth yahrzeit, a day before Shavuot. "A beloved wife, mother and grandmoth...

Presentation in PDF format Does Rav really hold that a minor who reaches the age of maturity and does not have intercourse with her husband, is still only married to him on a rabbinical level? It seems from another source that he holds otherwise. But that source is explained as referring also to a case where he had relations with her and on account of that her marriage became a marriage by Torah l...

Today's daf is sponsored by Art Gould & Carol Robinson on the occasion of their 49th wedding anniversary. "We met each other at Hillel House in the summer of 1971 and have been inseparable since our very first Shabbat together. For once in his life Art knew the right thing to say - "Sit with me and I will get you a siddur."(She said yes!) We are grateful to HaShem and to Carol's medical team for b...

Presentation in PDF format What is the text that they put in a mi'un document? Why was the original text shortened? The refusal of a minor can be done in many different ways - even if the girls somehow indicates that she is not interested in being married to him, without saying it directly, she is free from her marriage. several different examples of this are brought. According to Rabbi Yehuda ben...

Today's daf is sponsored by Suri Stern in honor of her son's, Yosef Yeshaya's, marriage yesterday to Rivkah Cohen. "May they be zocheh to build a bayit neeman b'yisrael , a binyan adei ad ." Beit Shamai and Beit Hillel disagree regarding mi'un (refusal) on five different issues: Can a girl only do mi'un only from engagement or also from marriage? Can she "refuse" the yabam also if her husband dies...

Today's daf is sponsored by Sara Berelowitz "Thank you to Rabbanit Michelle and all my chevrutot on the 7:15 zoom who teach, inspire and make me laugh. Hadran Daf Yomi is the anchor of my day. I am very thankful to you all." A mistaken chalitza is valid. What is this mistaken chalitza? It is a case where he was promised that if he does chalitza with her, she will give him money, but in the end, sh...

This week's learning is sponsored by Judy and Zev Berman for the refuah shleima of our sister-in-law, Phyllis Hecht. Please say tehilim for גיטל פעשא בת מאשה רחל. May she have a complete recovery and may we all share b'sorot tovot. The statement made to Shmuel's father that a woman who spits at her yabam only, forbids all the brothers from performing yibum, can be understood also according to Rabb...

This week's learning is sponsored by Rebecca Koenigsberg "in honor of my Daf Yomi Buddies in New Haven Connecticut whose companionship has helped me through the more difficult moments in Daf Yomi." This week's learning is sponsored by Rachel Recht in loving memory of her father, Shalom Elimelech ben Efraim Fishel Yehoshua and Esther Weinreb. Today's daf is sponsored "in honor of our father and gra...

What types of shoes can be used for chalitza? What are the different opinions? In what situations with a defect in one's feet/legs can a person not do chalitza? The laws for going to the Temple on the holidays seem to be different than the laws here – why? Why does the halacha distinguish between a leg cut off by the thigh and one cut off by the shin? Several verses in the Torah are brought to sho...

Today's daf is sponsored in honor of the inimitable Phyllis Hecht, whose spirit of determination, through challenges, inspires us all. Stay well, dear friend. With love from the Hadran Zoom Family. In what situations can a convert serve as a judge? Can one use a shoe for chalitza ideally or is it less than ideal as ideally, a sandal should be used? It is a subject of debate among tannaim and amora...

If a child was born to a woman who was married to two different men within three months and it is unclear who the father is, if the child cursed or hit both fathers, would he/she be liable? There is a debate whether it matters if he/she cursed them both at the same time or one after the other. If both fathers are kohanim, he must work in the Temple on the week that each father is supposed to work...

If a child was born to a woman who was married to two different men within three months and it is unclear who the father is, if the child cursed or hit both fathers, would he/she be liable? There is a debate whether it matters if he/she cursed them both at the same time or one after the other. If both fathers are kohanim, he must work in the Temple on the week that each father is supposed to work...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Meryll Page in loving memory of her father, George Levine, Yosef Michael HaLevi on his yahrzeit. "I'm grateful for his enthusiastic support of my Jewish learning. Dad was an expert in creative tzedakah. He was a mensch to emulate and a loving dad." There are ten types of people who can't collect teruma from the granary - why? Many of them can...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is dedicated by Dvoranit Shwartz in honor of the successful fundraising campaign for Shirat HaTamar shul in Efrat and with deep appreciation for the Rabbanit of the kehilla, Shira Merili Mirvis. A braita lists several cases where one could potentially have to do chalitza for one's mother, sister or daughter out of doubt. Under what circumstances would this ha...