Questions tagged [masechet-yevamot]
Tractate of Mishna describing the process and who can do Levirate marriage, Chalitza and when an Aguna can get married
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Why is Yevamot the first masechet in Nashim?
Rashi in Nazir (2a) says that Ketuvot is the main Masechta in Nashim.
If so, why is Ketuvot not the first Masechta in Nashim?
Thanks so much in advance.
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Why include an impossible yavam in yibum?
R. Akiva states (Y'vamos 8:4) that there is a distinction between the levirate obligations of an impotent man who has been that way all his life and an impotent man who became that way during his ...
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Tosfot quoting the Ri Migash?
Tosfot in Yevamot 83b seems to address the comment of Rabbi Yosef Ibn Migash on Baba Batra.
ול"ג דתניא כמו שגורס הרב אבן מאגש ואומר דתניא גבי בכור דלא היה לו לרבא להניח המשנה ולהביא הברייתא שאין ...
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Where does Rabbeinu Tam discuss the “aspaklaria ha-meira”?
In Bernard-Henri Levy's book, "The Genius of Judaism", on p222-3, the author describes what appears to be the discussion in the gemara in Yevamot 49b about Moshe's level of prophecy. He says that ...
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A little Yabam who made Yibum and died
See Mishna Yevamot 7.4.
העובר, והיבם, והאירוסין, והחירש, ובן תשע שנים ויום אחד, פוסלין ולא מאכילין. ספק שהוא בן תשע שנים ויום אחד ספק שאינו, ספק הביא שתי שערות ספק לא הביא, נפל הבית עליו ועל בת ...
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What are the “major” and “minor” commandments?
The Mishna says:
Be quick in performing a minor commandment as a major one. [Avot 4:2]
But we do not rank the commandments. The Mishna also says:
Be as scrupulous in observing a minor ...
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Strange Hava Amina in Yevamot 55b
Gemara Yevamot 55b (Soncino's Translation)
what, however, can be said, according to him who maintains [that for such an act one is] guilty? - The exclusion is rather that of intercourse with a dead ...
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Understanding the Rambam's commentary to Yevamos 3:7 and 3:9
The first half of Yevamos 3:7 says
שְׁלֹשָׁה אַחִים, שְׁנַיִם מֵהֶן נְשׂוּאִים שְׁתֵּי אֲחָיוֹת, וְאֶחָד נָשׂוּי נָכְרִית, מֵת אֶחָד מִבַּעֲלֵי אֲחָיוֹת, וְכָנַס נָשׂוּי נָכְרִית אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ, ...
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Do we force someone along the דרך מוציאתו מידי עבירה, according to R. Akiva?
Mishnayos Y'vamos chapter 15:
האשה שהלכה היא ובעלה למדינת הים ובאה ואמרה מת בעלי, תינשא ותיטול כתובתה וצרתה אסורה. היתה בת ישראל לכהן, תאכל בתרומה, דברי רבי טרפון. רבי עקיבא אומר, אין זו דרך מוציאתה ...
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One case is missing from פרק חרש שנשא
The end of the fourteenth chapter of mishnayos Y’vamos go through cases of two brothers’ marriages. The first cases are where both brothers, or both their wives, are deaf-mutes. Then come the ...
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Does בית שמאי hold a second מיאון effective?
The mishna at the start of chapter 13 of Y'vamos cites a disagreement between the schools of Shamay and Hilel about a minor girl who is married off by (for example) her mother and can refuse the ...
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How does נעלו exclude a סנדל מסוליים?
The Bavli, Y'vamos 103 amud 2, quotes a b'raysa:
[The verse says that, for chalitza, the woman removes] "his shoe". I'd think it must be his own shoe; how do I know it can be anyone's shoe? [The ...
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Estate of a convert whose only possible heir is just that: only a possible heir
The last mishna in chapter 11 of Y'vamos says that if a woman didn't wait long between two marriages and therefore we don't know whether her son, say Samuel, is from the first husband, Aaron, or the ...
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Why can the sister-in-law return to her husband according to R. Yosi? Isn't she forbidden to the husband and to the adulterer? (Y'vamos 10:4)
The Mishnah, Y'vamos 10:4, quotes Rabbi Yosi as follows:
כל שפוסל על ידי אחרים פוסל על ידי עצמו, וכל שאין פוסל על ידי אחרים אינו פוסל על ידי עצמו
If I correctly understand the explanation of the רע״...
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Why “the” widow in Y'vamos chapter 9?
The first couple of mishnayos in chapter nine of Y'vamos list classes of women, each of whom is permitted to marry her first husband but forbidden to marry his brother on his childless death, or vice ...
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Why is the case of the near-simultaneous deaths in Y'vamos chapter 7?
The seventh chapter of Mishayos Y'vamos discusses under what circumstances someone related to a kohen can eat t'ruma, depending on their relation and on what other relatives are alive. But in the ...
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Why the story of a kohen gadol marrying a widow (יבמות ו:ד)?
Y'vamos, chapter 6, mishna 4, reads, in part:
אירס את האלמנה ונתמנה להיות כהן גדול יכנוס. ומעשה ביהושע בן גמלא שקידש את מרתא בת ביתוס ומינהו המלך להיות כהן גדול וכנסה.
If someone kidushin-betrothed ...
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Why “How so?” in Y'vamos 5:2?
The Mishna, Y'vamos 5:1–2:
רבן גמליאל אומר, אין גט אחר גט ולא מאמר אחר מאמר ולא בעילה אחר בעילה ולא חליצה אחר חליצה. וחכמים אומרים, יש גט אחר גט ויש מאמר אחר מאמר אבל לא אחר בעילה ולא אחר ...
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Why one's daughter is not mentioned in Arayos in the Torah?
Gemmorah Yevomos 2b:
אלא בתו כיון דאתיא מדרשא חביבא ליה
With regard to his daughter, since this prohibition is actually derived from a homiletical interpretation and is not explicitly stated in the ...
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How do Chazal know that the descendants of a Mamzer may never marry into the general populace?
The passuk says (Devarim 23:3-4):
לֹא־יָבֹ֥א מַמְזֵ֖ר בִּקְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם דּ֣וֹר עֲשִׂירִ֔י לֹא־יָ֥בֹא ל֖וֹ בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃
A Mamzer may not come into the congregation of Hashem; even ...
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What happens to those who have not completed their conversion post to the coming of moshiach?
Given that moshiach can come at any time, what will happen to those that are in the process of conversion?
Certain passages such as yevamos 24b, geirus would no longer be performed in the messianic ...
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Yibum against her will
It says in Yevamos 53b among other places that Yibbum (levirate marriage to the wife of one's brother when a brother died childless) works against her will. So I was wondering if while it works is it ...
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why do we mourn the 24k students of Rabbi Akivah?
until lag b'omer we mourn the 24k students of Rabbi Akiva who were wiped out in a plague (Yevamot 62b). Why do we mourn this and not many other tragic events in our history (ex.pinchas affair, korach, ...
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Why does HaShem desire the tefillos of the righteous?
א"ר יצחק מפני מה היו אבותינו עקורים מפני שהקב"ה מתאוה לתפלתן של צדיקים
Says R' Yitzchak: Why were our forefathers sterile? Because HaShem desires the prayers of the righteous.
From Yevamos ...
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Did Adam have intercourse with animals?
Yebamoth 63a states that Adam had intercourse with animals:
א"ר אלעזר מאי דכתיב (בראשית ב, כג) זאת הפעם עצם מעצמי ובשר מבשרי מלמד שבא אדם על כל בהמה וחיה ולא נתקררה דעתו עד שבא על חוה
And Rabbi ...
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Why is a Chalutzah not normal ervah?
As discussed here, Reish Lakish is of the opinion (in Yevamos 10b) that one may not marry his sister-in-law with whom he did chalitzah. He derives it from the passuk of "lo yibaneh" - literally, he ...
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Is the existence of Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions a violation of “Lo Titgodedu”?
Devarim 14:1:
בָּנִים אַתֶּם לה' אֱלֹקיכֶם לֹא תִתְגֹּדְדוּ וְלֹא־תָשִׂימוּ קָרְחָה בֵּין עֵינֵיכֶם לָמֵת׃
You are children to Hashem your G-d. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make a bald ...
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Is one allowed to lie to *possibly* preserve peace?
The Gemara in Yevamos (65a) proves from various sources that one may lie, or at least tell a half-truth, to preserve peace, at least regarding the past. (See here for more on that Gemara.)
Now, in ...
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As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. pedagogic Talmud Torah
The Gemara in Yebamot 117 tries to explain the reciprocity of sentiment between a mother-in-law (X) and her daughter-in-law (Y). As an illustration of this phenomenon, the Gemara quotes a verse in ...
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Understanding derivation of rule that “פרו ורבו” is mandatory only for men?
The Gmara (Yevamot 65b) says that the reason why men are the only ones that have to keep "פרו ורבו" is because right after it its written "וכבשוה" (the human has to take over the world), and men are ...
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Does the talmud promote pedophilia? [closed]
I found a surprising claim from a conservative Christian web site about halacha and relations with children. Is what they say actually true or is this wrong?
From http://truthtellers.org/alerts/...
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Yevamot Relationship Chart
I remember seeing a Web 1.0ish website with a great chart with ALL of the relationships described in Mesechet Yevamot. This website also had a click through tour of diagrams of the Beit Hamikdash. I ...
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Is a bat kohen who has relations with a pasul (not marries) then forbidden from t'rumah?
Is a bat kohen who has relations with a pasul (not marries) then forbidden from t'rumah? I ask this because I'm having trouble understanding Noam Yerushalmi's explanation of Yerushalmi Yevamot 8:6 in ...
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What's the source that Rabbi Akiva's students stopped passing away on Lag BaOmer?
The source of Rabbi Akiva's students passing away during Sefira is from the Gemara in Yevamos 62b
רבי יהושע אומר נשא אדם אשה בילדותו ישא אשה בזקנותו היו לו בנים בילדותו יהיו לו בנים בזקנותו שנא' ...
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What do we do when chalitza is impossible?
The Mishna at the end of the 14th perek of יבמות gives a few examples where יבום is required and חליצה cannot be done. For example, if there are two brothers, one a חירש (deaf-mute) and one a פיקח (...
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How did they ask both Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda Ben Beseira?
The Gemara (Yevamos 108b) says:
אמר רב יהודה אמר רב מאי דכתיב מימינו בכסף שתינו עצינו במחיר יבאו בשעת הסכנה נתבקשה הלכה זו הרי שיצאה מראשון בגט ומשני במיאון מהו שתחזור לראשון שכרו אדם אחד בארבע מאות ...
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Should you change the truth for peace?
The Gemara says (Yevamos 63a)
רב הוה קא מצערא ליה דביתהו כי אמר לה עבידי לי טלופחי עבדא ליה חימצי חימצי עבדא ליה טלופחי כי גדל חייא בריה אפיך לה אמר ליה איעליא לך אמך אמר ליה אנא הוא דקא אפיכנא לה ...
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Why can't a yavam marry a chalutzah?
As recorded in Yevamos 10b and Yevamos 32a, a yavam (brother of a man who died married, but childless) cannot marry his sister-in-law (yevamah) after performing chalitzah (the ritual in which he ...
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Child from the relations Yael had with Sisra
According to Shoftim 5:27, per the explanation found in Yevamos 103a (in the name of רבי יוחנן), Yael had relations with Sisra.
אמר רבי יוחנן שבע בעילות בעל אותו רשע באותו היום שנאמר בין רגליה כרע
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Can a Yachid follow his own opinion in a Tzibbur?
The Gemara in Yevamos (13b) says that there is a prohibition to make "Agudos Agudos", different groups of people following different rulings.
However, the Gemara says that this is forbidden only if ...
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Sons of a female convert and yibum?
A mishna on Yevamot 97b says (Soncino translation):
The sons of a female proselyte who become proselytes together with her neither participate in chalitzah nor contract levirate marriage. Even if ...
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Seven months pregnancy [duplicate]
There are places where it mentions a seven month full term pregnancy such as the Mishna Yevamos 100a. In modern day science is there such a concept as a seven month pregnancy that is considered full ...
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How can an 'Eved own an 'Eved?
Yevamoth 66a discusses certain rules pertaining to ownership and legal rights that can be passed down or up the chain of ownership (eg., whether an 'Eved - slave - owned by the wife of a Kohen may eat ...
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Yibum & Chalitzah: Questionable hekesh with wife's sister
In Yevamoth 3b, we learn that the reason for exempting fourteen women (of the fifteen enumerated in mishna 1:1) and their co-wives from yibum (levirate marriage) and chalitzah (the decision not to do ...
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Yibum and Chalitzah: stringency or leniency?
In Yevamoth 8a, we discuss a group of women (enumerated in mishna 1:1) with whom neither yibum (levirate marriage) nor chalitzah (the rejection of levirate marriage) takes place.
According to the ...
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Understanding a Fine Point in the Rambam's Laws of Yibbum
In MT, Hilkhot Yibbum veChalitzah 7:11, the Rambam presents the case of three brothers, two of whom are married to two sisters and the third of whom is married to an unrelated woman. In the event that ...
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What's wrong with Rashi's explanation of Hechsher Mitzvah?
A Daf Yomi Shi'ur that I listen to went into details about Hechsher Mitzvah when we reached Yevamoth 6a.
Essentially, Rashi says that the Gemara's term, "Hechsher Mitzvah", is referring to a scenario ...
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Why am I told specifically not to uncover my father's nakedness?
I was flipping through Yevamos and saw that it said that the Torah does not explicitly state that one is prohibited from having relations with his daughter. I checked out the relevant passage in the ...
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How to understand the use of גֹאֵל in Rus
I'm really perplexed by what is going on in megillas Rus. In chapter 3 Rus and Boaz keep talking about Boaz being a גֹאֵל, but גֹאֵל of what? Boaz is the uncle of Machlon and Kilyon and as such he ...
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Rashi on Righteous Kings: Order
Inspired by Jake's comment
Rashi to Yebamoth 63a, describing Naamah the Ammonitess' prolific progeny (which began in the Davidic line with her son, Rehoboam), mentions Hezekiah, Asa, and Jehoshaphat, ...
