Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 10 Three ideas to help us prepare for Passover next week: the condemned house yields treasure, the beggar who learned he was already rich, and the elderly shuffle we can leave behind by working on …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 9, 10 Levirate betrothal – as opposed to yibum or chalitza – can create all kinds of problems, including a double levirate obligation on a woman who was first widowed from marriage and then from …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 8 What can we learn about the effect of uncertain betrothals and divorces on the law of yibum from the case of house collapse wherein it is uncertain which spouse died first? Or the case …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 The sages evaluate a series of related scenarios where the variable is timing: who was married to who at the time of the childless brother’s death?   #Judaism #halacha #Torah …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 2, 3 Tonight we study a case of yibum that is simpler than previous cases, and provided an important point of reference for those more complex cases. Hopefully the hard work we did with those, …

Topics covered: Chapter 3, Mishna 1 Working through the nuances and ramifications of a case in which two brothers were married to two sisters, and each had a second wife as well, then the brothers die, and the two pairs …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 10, Chapter 3, Mishna 1 If the man who helped free a woman from her marriage is himself married, then we do not suspect him of helping that woman out of her marriage for his …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 7, 8, 9 The intense danger and consequences of wicked rumors are demonstrated in the law of a suspected adulteress. Must her husband divorce her? May he remarry her? May she marry the man with …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 5, 6, 7 Why does the yibum obligation fall the oldest surviving brother? What happens when someone makes an insincere conversion to Judaism? Why will converts no longer be accepted after Moshiach comes? When does …