Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 7 A Jewish man fulfills his obligation to be fruitful and multiply by having a boy and a girl, per Beis Hillel. Beis Shammai say two boys. What if the children die, God forbid? Do …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7 Whom may a priest marry? Whom may a high priest marry? Included among the women prohibited to both of them is a “zona.” This word is often used to mean a …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 3 For whom may a priest become tamei, ritually impure, in order to attend to their burial needs when they die? The Torah says only very close relatives, not kin by marriage… The beautiful story …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 3 Who may the High Priest marry? What actions will render a woman prohibited to him?   #Judaism #halacha #Torah #family #God #Talmud #wife #widow #brother #yibum #chalitzah #yavam #yevama #yevamos #mitzvah    Opening song: …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 2 When does the daughter of a priest lose her privilege of eating teruma, consecrated food? If she is a divorcee, she returns to her father’s house and may eat of it, but if she …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 2 The significance of betrothal, intercourse, and seclusion for consummating marriage in cases of a couple prohibited to each other because she’s a divorcee and he’s a priest, or he has a crushed testicles and …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 Distinguishing the initial stage of intercourse from non-intercourse and complete intercourse. How does this apply to yibum? To betrothal? To betrothal in the case of a priest? To betrothal in the case of a …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 How do we know that the “beginning of intercourse” = intercourse with respect to various prohibited relationships? How do we know that prohibitions relating to siblings apply to maternal half-siblings as they do to …

Topics covered: Chapter 6, Mishna 1 A man dies childless. To fulfill the mitzvah of yibum, his brother marries his widow by having intercourse with her. What if they have intercourse unwillingly, accidentally or unwittingly? How do we know that …