Yet another daf which shows that the law has been reformed! This time, in protection of women who want a divorce. The mishna teaches that the husband gives the scribe’s wages for writing a bill of divorce. The Gemara asks: What is the reason for this? The Gemara answers: As the verse states: “When aContinue reading “Bava Batra 168”
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Bava Batra 160 (capricious Priests)
In today’s world, we use docu-sign which zips us around the pages of documents telling us where to sing, where to initial, and what we can skip shoudl we choose. But, in the ancient world – where did we sign documents to make them valid? That’s the topic of today’s daf. The gem comes whenContinue reading “Bava Batra 160 (capricious Priests)”
Bava Batra 132
The ketuba is one of the many protections that the Sages developed for a married woman to prevent her husband from leaving her financially destitute. A key guarantee of the ketuba is a sum of money that the woman is promised should her husband die or divorce her. What if he does not have that cash on hand? ThenContinue reading “Bava Batra 132”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 