Daf Yomi for Women - Hadran

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is dedicated in honor of Jon and Yael Cohen on their 24th wedding anniversary. Mazel tov! How is the last issue Menashe had with Isaiah resolved? If the Torah said that one has a set amount of years to live and Isaiah said that Chizkiyahu was given fifteen extra years to live, how can that be? The answer is that there is a tanaitic debate on how to answer the...

What makes someone a mamzer? There are three different opinions about whether it is a child born from forbidden relationships that are just negative prohibitions (Rabbi Akiva), ones that are punishable by karet (Shimon HaTimni) and ones that are punishable by death by the court (Rabbi Yehoshua). The Mishna rules like Rabbi Shimon HaTimni but also brings a support for Rabbi Yehoshua's opinion from...

Study Guide Yevamot 48 The braita stated that the process for conversion is the same for a freed slave as for a convert. The Gemara assumes they meant that a freed slave also needs to accept mitzvot upon immersing in the mikveh. However, this contradicts a braita that states it is unnecessary. Rav Sheshet reconciles this by saying that there is a tannaitic debate on this topic as can be seen in a...

Today's daf is sponsored by Devorah Radomsky in honor of her daughter, Elisheva Yehudit on the occasion of her Bat Mitzvah. Today's daf is sponsored by Yechiel Berkowicz. "In loving memory of my mother Sara F. Berkowicz. She was a holocaust survivor, a fighter, and a strong believer in Jewish education." Article by Rabbi David Brofsky - The Role of Beit Din and the Immersion of Female Converts Tsh...

Rav said that one who purchases a Canaanite slave from a gentile does not yet have full rights to the slave and therefore if the slave goes to a mikveh for the sake of converting, he is considered a Jew and is freed from slavery. Why? A contradiction is brought, and is resolved. Rav Avia limits this to exclude a case where one purchases the slave directly from the slave himself, but his limitation...

Today's daf is dedicated by Deborah Hoffman-Wade "in grateful appreciation for my 90-year-old mother, Geraldine Hoffman, who gave birth to me 69 years ago today. She continues to be a blessing!" What is the status of a child born to a non-Jewish father or Canaanite slave and Jewish mother? Is the child a mamzer? Is the child not a mamzer, but disqualified from marrying a kohen? There were differen...

Study Guide Yevamot 44 The Mishna explains that if there are four brothers who all die childless, the oldest brother can do yibum with each of their wives. How can one marry four wives – isn't that not financially responsible? One who has two wives, only one of them needs to do yibum or chalitza . From where is this derived? Why wouldn't both be required? Why not just have one do yibum and the oth...

Study Guide Yevamot 43 Rabbi Avahu said that whenever there is a Mishna with an unattributed opinion and the same topic has a debate in a braita, we hold by the Mishna. A difficulty is raised against this from an unattributed opinion in a Mishna in Kelim 13:8 and it is a source of debate in a braita and yet, we do not hold like the Mishna. Rabbi Avahu answered that this Mishna was an exception to...

If chalitza was performed within the first three months after the husband's death, the woman needs to wait three months before remarrying. Is it three months from the chalitza or from the death? What is the reason why all women need to wait three months before remarrying after death or divorce from their husband? The first explanation is that we want to be able to know who the son belongs to as Go...

Presentation in PDF format What is the reason why that a man can marry the relative of the tzara of a chalutza but not the tzara of the relative of his chalutza ? If a man performs chalitza with his yevama or gets divorced, and his brother marries her sister and dies childless, he cannot do yibum, but is he obligated to perform chalitza with her? If one falls to yibum to two brothers and in the me...

Presentation in PDF format A braita is brought regarding the leftovers of the meal offering which has a similar structure to the braita on Yevamot 39 regarding the mitzva of yibum. On the yibum braita we had two different interpretations. Which one fits better with the meal offering braita. And how can we read the braita according to the other interpretation? What is the connection between inherit...

Why didn't Abaye question Raba from the ketuba  in our Mishna where the woman's family has a non-definitive claim to her money while the yabam has a definitive claim (as the property is in his possession) and yet they split the proceeds according to Beit Shamai? To answer that question, they reread the Mishna and claim that Beit Shamai wasn't relating to that case. Abaye brings a third explanation...

Today's daf is sponsored by Elisa Hartstein in honor of her oldest daughter finishing her army service today "also in tremendous appreciation for all of our Chayalot and Chayalim, present and past, who make our lives here in Israel possible every single day." Today's daf is sponsored by Mona & David Schwartz and family in loving memory of Mary Horowitz, Miriam Etel bat Aharon Halevi & Mirel Meltze...

Study Guide Yevamot 37 This month's learning is sponsored by Dora Chana Haar and family for the refuah shleima of Chava Naami bat Daba Chana.  How do we rule with a baby who dies within the first month - is the baby considered viable and exempts the mother and brother from yibum or is it a case of doubt? What are the consequences for a woman who was betrothed to a man and hadn't done yibum? Is the...

Study Guide Yevamot 36 Today's daf is sponsored by Gitta Jaroslawicz-Neufeld "Thank you to my Hadran family for your care and concern after my recent accident. May we all share Smachot in good health!"  After rejecting Abaye's resolution to the difficulty against Rabbi Yochanan's position regarding yibum and chalitza of a pregnant woman, Rava answers the difficulty in a different manner. A braita...

Study Guide Yevamot 35 Two different versions of Shmuel's statement are brought regarding what case does a woman not need to wait three months before marrying. Is it regarding a Canaanite slave and a gentile who are minors or is referring to them, but over 12? If his statement is referring to older women, then one can infer that Jewish girls who are minors also do not have to wait three months and...

Study Guide Yevamot 34 This week's learning is sponsored by Sharon Hirsch in honor of her daughter, daughters-in-law and granddaughters. Today's learning is sponsored by Rikki and Alan Zibitt in loving memory of Rikki's mother, Frieda Carlin, Fraidl bat Meir v'Rivka on the occasion of her 7th Yahrzeit. May her neshama have an Aliyah. After discussing the different opinions of Rabbi Shimon and Rabb...

There are three different interpretations brought to explain what the issue of debate was between Rabbi Chiya and Bar Kapara in the three cases in the braita. Were they debating whether issur chal al issur regarding an issur kollel according to Rabbi Yosi? Or was it regarding a case when both prohibitions came about at the same time and according to Rabbi Yosi? Or both at the same time, but accord...

Study Guide Yevamot 32 Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Belinda Kreike in loving memory of Esther Kreike, Esther Bas Yehuda Nossan Hacohen on her 8th yahrzeit. "She is remembered fondly by her family in Manchester and Israel." Today's daf is sponsored by Judy Baumel-Schwartz in honor of her daughter, Beki's birthday! "I am constantly amazed by her enthusiasm for learning new...

Presentation in PDF format Today's daf is sponsored by Daniel and Sara Berelowitz in honor of their granddaughter, Chamutal Matalon's Bat Mitzvah. Why did the Mishna not mention a case of doubt in divorce when he threw her the get and it is unclear if it was closer to him or closer to her? Raba answers, but Abaye tries to ascertain why the same issues wouldn't apply to kiddushin. The cases are dif...

Today's daf is sponsored by Bernie & Susannnah Goldstein in gratitude for their family recovering from COVID. "לולי תורתך שעשועיי, אז אבדתי בעוניי. Daf Yomi during the pandemic has been a real source of strength. Thank you Rabbanit Michelle & Hadran team for making it accessible." Several different variations are brought in the Mishnayot of three brothers, each married to two sisters and a third w...

Presentation in PDF format Study Guide Yevamot 29 What is the law if two women who are relatives of each other (to whom a man can't marry both) fall to one brother for yibum. Are they exempt or do they need chalitza ? There is a debate in the Mishna. The Mishna lists outgrowths of this case that are very similar to those in the Mishna of Yevamot 26. Why are they repeated here?  Beit Shamai and Bei...

Study Guide Yevamot 28 Today's daf is sponsored by Tina Senders Lamm for a refuah shleima of Fruma Devorah bat Chana. Rabbi Yochanan had answered the difficulty raised by Rabbi Yosi son of Rabbi Chanina based on the Mishna by rejecting the Mishna. The Gemara suggests all sorts of other possibilities Rabbi Yochanan could have used without having to reject the reading of the Mishna and then explains...

Study Guide Yevamot 27 Presentation in PDF format.  Today's daf is dedicated by Natasha Shabat in memory of Miriam Chaya bat R'fael, taken from us too soon, on March 24th. "From St. Paul Academy, to Harvard, to my many trips back to Minneapolis over the years, I always looked up to you as a model of yirat shamayim and pure love of HaShem." Two explanations are brought to explain Shmuel's position...

Presentation in PDF format If the men mentioned in the previous Mishnayot were married to other women at the time they testified/ruled, etc. and then their wife died, they would be allowed to marry the women mentioned. Is this the case only if they died and are not divorced? On what does it depend? Does this mean that if a woman had two husbands who die (as first he testified that her husband died...