Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 6, Chapter 11, Mishna 1, 2 Nonmarital sexual relations can aberrant cases that upend expected outcomes under Torah law in terms of permitted/prohibited marriages. Conversion can also produce unexpected results because brothers at birth do …

Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 3, 4, 5, 6 Working through levirate marriage consequences when a minor boy is involved in a yibum situation. (Criminal law consequences are a different matter.) Rabbi Yochanan became furious when his student Rabbi Elazar …

Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 3 Working through what happens when a husband hears his wife has died, marries her sister, and then the wife returns. Is he permitted to return to his wife? The Gemara examines related laws where …

Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 2, 3 Is a single witness believed that a widow’s yavam has died? Is she believed? We do believe her to testify that her husband has died. What if a wife goes on a journey …

Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 2 What if the husband who went away and disappeared had their sole child with him, and a witness or witnesses reported that both of them died? If the child died first, and the husband …

Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 1, 2 The penalty for a woman, who remarries based on the testimony of a single witness that her first husband died and then that husband returns, is heavy. The implications are many, and this …

Topics covered: Chapter 10, Mishna 1 What happens when a husband goes away on a journey and disappears? Can the wife assume she’s a widow and remarry based on the testimony of a single witness? What happens if the first …

Topics covered: Chapter 9, Mishna 3 Why does the mother of a priest have more privileges with respect to eating the priestly portions of sacrificial offerings after marrying and divorcing a non-priest, than the daughter of a priest in the …

Topics covered: Chapter 9, Mishna 2 Betrothal, pregnancy and levirate bond with a Yisroel are enough to disqualify a priest’s daughter from eating teruma, but the same relationships with a priest are not enough to qualify a Yisroel’s daughter to …