Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Rabbi Yochanan, Reish Lakish and other Sages debate whether one who is subject to death penalty or lashes, as well as monetary liability, pays the $ if the corporal punishment was not actually imposed. …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Examining when one incurs capital punishment and liability for a finaincial fine simulatenously, which penalty applies. What if one steals a cow and slaughters it on Shabbat, or if the cow is set to …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 When one becomes liable to lashes and monetary damages simultaneously, the lashes are usually waived. What are the exceptions to this rule, and how do they relate to a man who rapes or seduces …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 When one becomes liable to capital punishment and monetary damages simultaneously, the damages are usually waived. What are the exceptions to this rule, and how do they relate to a man who rapesor seduces …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 The Torah rules that a rapist or seducer must marry the girl if she wants, and he may never divorce her, and he pays a fine. What is the difference if she’s a minor, …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 9, 10 A husband may not give testimony about his wife because she is considered the same person as him. If a couple divorced, she leaves the house unless she owned it before they were …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 7, 8 If a city is besieged by foreign soldiers, do we create a legal presumption that all the women in the city were raped, which would lead them to be prohibited to their husbands …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6, 7 Sometimes we establish the legal status of a kohen, a priest, by surprising means, e.g. that he receives the Levite’s tithe. Can we establish a legal matter by the testimony of two witnesses …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6 Do we establish that a man is a kohen – a priest – and fit to marry as a priest, because we saw that he stood up to bless the congregation alongside other priests? …