Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Presentation in PDF format The Gemara brings more sources to try to prove whether Rav Sheshet or Rav Acha were correct regarding their debate about a convert being able to marry his brother's wife. If a person was conceived before his mother converted but was born after his mother's conversion, which relative is he permitted/forbidden to marry? If five women's children got mixed at birth, and they...

Presentation in PDF format This week's learning is sponsored by Robert and Paula Cohen in loving memory of Helen Cohen, Hennah bat Yitchak Nechemia. This week's learning is sponsored by Shalom and Tina Lamm to commemorate the 2nd yahrzeit of their beloved father and father-in-law, Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, zecher tzadik l'vracha , Harav Nachum ben Meir Shmuel v'Perel.  "We are grateful to Hashem  tha...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Leah Ackner and Jonathan Loring in honor of their daughter, Meira Raizel's Bat Mitzvah "16 years ago, we were called to the Torah to celebrate our marriage. Today, we are proud to watch you be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah, chanting the very same verses mommy chanted at our aufruf. We are so proud of the person you are becoming. May you...

Presentation in PDF format Why is a woman forbidden to go back to her husband after being with another man unwittingly (one witness testified that he had died) while a man whose wife went abroad and he married her sister, thinking his wife was dead, is not penalized and can return to his original wife? The answer comes from a drasha, because logic would state that it was forbidden. There is a deba...

Presentation in PDF format There are three attempts to answer a question asked of Rav Sheshet (version 2) about whether one witness to allow a woman to be exempt from yibum. If one's wife went abroad and he was told she was dead and married her sister, what is the law?

Reish Lakish suggested that the Mishna quoted by Rabbi Yochanan could be explained as Rabbi Akiva's opinion. But this is rejected as Rabbi Akiva holds that one can acquire things that are not yet in existence and the Mishna was based on the principle that things that are not yet in existence cannot be acquired. Some hold that Rabbi Akiva holds this way and others disagree. Rav Nachman brought a li...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Dianne Kuchar marking the shloshim today of our beloved husband, father and grandfather Dennis, Shimon Avraham Ben Yisrael Moshe. It is harder to believe each day. Today he would be turning 66."  Today's daf is sponsored by Tina & Shalom Lamm with gratitude to Hashem for a new grandson, Nachum Betzalel. "Mazal tov to his parents, Shlomit & Ari...

Study Guide Yevamot 91 Presentation in PDF format The Mishna listed several different opinions regarding the penalties for a woman who remarried based on the testimony of one witness. Do each of them build on the one before or on the one after him? Two different approaches to this are brought. Rav Huna says in the name of Rav that in a case of two witnesses who testify he died and the court was no...

Rav Chisda brings six more attempts to prove that rabbis can override Torah law. Each time Raba rejects his claim. The first is from a law regarding truma, the second regards impure blood that was sprinkled on the altar. The third is a list of laws that the rabbis instituted a decree that prevented the fulfillment of a mitzva. These and the previous case were rejected by Raba as they are not cases...

A woman who was told by one witness that her husband died and she remarried and later found out that her first husband was still alive, needs a get from each of them. The get from the second is not really needed but the rabbis were concerned people would see and think that one can get out of marriage without a get . If so, then if she was engaged only to the second husband, one would need a get as...

On what basis is one witness believed in this case to permit the woman to remarry? Four answers are brought - the first three try to prove it from Torah laws, but are unsuccessful. In the end, the Gemara concludes that she can marry based on one witness because the rabbis decided to be lenient in order to prevent an aguna situation. That explains why in the end, they are very strict with her if sh...

Study Guide Yevamot 87 Presentation in PDF format This week's learning is sponsored by Shira Daniel in loving memory of her father, Shlomo Yosef ben Chaim Shmuel. Today's daf is sponsored by the Hadran Zoom family in honor of Shira Futornik. "Shira! All your self-assumed aunts (and a few uncles) are inspired by your daily commitment to learning the Daf and are a bit farklempt watching you sit dail...

Study Guide Yevamot 87 Presentation in PDF format This week's learning is sponsored by Shira Daniel in loving memory of her father, Shlomo Yosef ben Chaim Shmuel. Today's daf is sponsored by the Hadran Zoom family in honor of Shira Futornik. "Shira! All your self-assumed aunts (and a few uncles) are inspired by your daily commitment to learning the Daf and are a bit farklempt watching you sit dail...

Presentation Today's daf is sponsored by Don Nadel in loving memory of his mother Rhoda Nadel, Zisa Risa bat Aliya haCohen on her 25th yahrzeit. The Mishna is based on the fact that a non-levite can't eat maaser . This is according to Rabbi Meir's opinion as found in a braita. From where does he derive this? What do the rabbis, who disagree with him, derive from that verse? The Gemara, however, qu...

This month's learning is sponsored by Michelle and Bill Futornick in honor of Shira's 18th birthday and high school graduation. "Shira was born on Shavuot, and has always been connected to Torah, especially through her more than 1,000 hours of community service in high school, the majority of which were with Friendship Circle. We are so proud of our daughter (and chevruta) and the mensch that she...

Study Guide Yevamot 84 Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by David Wenner in honor of Yaffa (Wenner) joining Hadran's Daf Yomi. "From your loving family." Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak brings further support for the assertion made that even though Rabbi Eliezer ruled that an androgynous is considered a male for truma, regarding animals for sacrifices, he views them as incapable of bein...

Today's daf is dedicated in honor of the city of Jerusalem for Yom Yerushalayim. Celebrating 55 years since its unification. Today's daf is sponsored by Rebecca Darshan in loving memory of her mother, Helene Isaacs, Chana bat Avraham David and Esther Rachel on her 22nd yahrzeit. "She was immersed in Torah learning and encouraged others to learn and teach. She lived life to its fullest, and the las...

Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish disagreed regarding an androgynous – could he permit his wife to eat the breast and calf ( chaze v'shok ) of the animal? Or only truma? Reish Lakish permits only truma, was because he holds that truma was only a rabbinic law after the Temple was destroyed and that is why it is permitted to her. Rabbi Yochanan disagrees with Reish Lakish's assumption about truma and...

Today's daf is sponsored by Valerie Adler in honor of her daughter, Anoushka. "Congratulations to our amazing daughter Anoushka who is today officially an MD. May you be blessed to heal many people and be a source of comfort to all those in need. Ima and Abba." Today's daf is sponsored in honor of the Kolodny family on the occasion of Avidan's Bar Mitzva.  The end of the Mishna mentioned actions t...

Today's daf is sponsored by Judy and Jerel Shapiro in memory of their dear cousin Judy Greenberg Hirsch of Chatsworth, CA, who passed away this week. "Judy was an early member of the Chavurah movement in LA, and was an amazing person. Zichrona L'vracha." Today's daf is sponsored by Shira Krebs in honor of Rena Berger's birthday. "Today is the special birthday of my sister and number one daf yomi s...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Caroline and Victor Ofstein in honor of their son Shalom's wedding to Yocheved Davidowitz today. "May their home be filled with Torah, learning and mitzvot, and bracha and simcha always". Today's daf is sponsored by Ruth Leah Kahan, Jessica Shklar, and Emily Michelson in loving memory of their mother Kadimah Michelson, Kadima bat HaRav Avraham...

Today's daf is sponsored by Faye Schwartz in loving memory of her mother, Baila bat HaRav Elimelech whose yahrzeit was yesterday. "She instilled in us that it was our responsibility to advocate for those who were unable. Nothing made her prouder than having children whose lives were imbued with the learning and transmission of Torah. " Rabbi Yehuda held that female Egyptian and Edomite converts we...

Today's daf is sponsored by Aviva Adler in loving memory of her father, Professor Joseph Kahane's 6th yahrzeit, Yosef ben Rachel v'Tzvi HaKohen.  When Doeg the Edomite recommended to King Saul to look into David's lineage to disqualify him on account of his great grandmother Ruth, in the end, Yeter, the father of Amasa brought down a tradition he had learned from Shmuel that Moabite and Amonite wo...

Other issues regarding the details of a patzua daka and crut shufcha are discussed, such as, if there is a perforation that scabs and heals, how can we determine that it is fully healed? What can be done to help it to heal? Rabba son of Rav Huna and his father Rav Huna each rule on a different topic - one forbids a man from marrying if he urinates and it comes out from two different openings. The...

  There are three verses in the Torah that refer to not eating truma when impure– why are all three necessary?  To those who understand the verses relating to the zav and leper different from Rabbi Yishmael – that they need to still bring a sacrifice, the verse must be referring not the truma but to sacrificial meat. If so, why are two verses needed to say the same thing – that one cannot eat sacr...