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**Daf Yomi for Women – Hadran**

Hadran.org.il is the portal for Daf Yomi studies for women.

Hadran.org.il is the first and only site where one can hear a daily Talmud class taught by a woman. The classes are taught in Israel by Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber, a graduate of Midreshet Lindenbaum’s scholars program with a BA in Talmud and Tanach from Bar-Ilan University. Michelle has taught Talmud and Halacha at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Pelech high school and MATAN. She lives in Ra’anana with her husband and their five children. Each morning the daf yomi class is delivered via ZOOM and then immediately uploaded and available for podcast and download.

Hadran.org.il reaches women who can now have access to a woman’s perspective on the most essential Jewish traditional text. This podcast represents a revolutionary step in advancing women’s Torah study around the globe.

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Gittin 62 - July 17, 28 Tamuz Jul 17, 2023

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Gittin 61 - July 16, 27 Tamuz Jul 16, 2023

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Study Guide Gittin 61

Today's daf is sponsored by Suri Stern in honor of her mother's birthday on July 20th. "She was a pioneer in the Five Towns community and baruch Hashem still enjoys those around her."

How can we understand the debate between Rabbi Yosi and the rabbis in the Mishna regarding stealing that is forbidden on account of theft by rabbinic law or because of darkhei shalom? One loan one's kitchen equipment of those who are suspected of storing shmita produce beyond the permitted time or amei haaretz (who are either suspected of not tithing their produce or of not keeping laws of purity) but there is a distinction between the two regarding helping grind their wheat. Why? Abaye and Rava each bring a different explanation and the Gemara raises several questions against Rava (contradictions from other tannitic sources) and resolves them. They bring another contradiction between two different Mishnas in Demai regarding one who brings his produce to an am haaretz to grind - does one need to be concerned that they switch their produce with their own? In which cases is there a reason for concern and why?

Gittin 60 - Shabbat July 15, 26 Tamuz Jul 14, 2023

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What is the order for who receives aliyot to the Torah after the first two (kohen and levi)? Is one allowed to read from a parchment that includes only one book of the Torah? Is one permitted to write sections of the Torah for children to learn? Can the Oral Torah be written down? Other laws are discussed that were instituted because of darkhei shalom, which relate to where to put the food for the eruv and laws of precedence regarding filling up wells from an irrigation channel.

Gittin 59 - July 14, 25 Tamuz Jul 14, 2023

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This week's learning is sponsored by Rena & Mark Goldstein in honor of their daughter, Jenny, who has been teaching Yeshiva students for 18 years, on the occasion of this important birthday.

The sale of a deaf-mute who signals and the sale of a child (who is mature enough to understand) is considered a good sale. The laws of the order of aliyot during Torah reading were instituted in order that people don't fight over who is more respected – first kohen, then levi, then yisrael. Other changes are brought in the Mishna that were instituted because of darkhei shalom and they will be discussed further in the Gemara. What is done when there is no kohen or levi in shul?

Gittin 58 - July 13, 24 Tamuz Jul 13, 2023

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This week's learning is sponsored by Judy Schwartz in honor of her birthday. "Dedicated to the memory of my beloved mother, Sarah Raizel bat Freida Sima and Mordechai Yitzhak Kraus (Shirley K. Tydor), as in our family we give our mothers a present on our birthday! They did the hard work!"

More stories of the destruction, including the story of the children of Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, the high priest, who were taken into captivity and put together in a room by their masters in order to bear children. Tzofnat bat Peniel taken captive and then while selling her to someone, she was almost stripped naked to show her beauty to him and she then rolled herself in ashes. One who buys from a sikrikon (a gentile who seized land) and then purchases the land from the original owner, the sale with the original owner is ineffective. Rav says this is only true if there was no document for the sale with the original owner. Shmuel disagrees and holds that even a document is not proof of a valid sale, but if in the document the owner guaranteed the land, then it is a valid sale. The law was changed in order to prevent land from remaining in the hands of the sikrikon - after twelve months, one could purchase the land and give the original owner a quarter of the value of the land. If the land was sold after to another and three years had passed since the original purchase from the sikrikon, what happens if the original owner claim to have not received the quarter? If the gentile who seized the land was just a regular thief (anparut), not one who was likely to murder, the laws of sikrikon do not apply and the land goes back to the original owner, even after twelve months. The laws of anparut do not apply in Babylonia - why not? The quarter that is given back to the original owner is that a third of the amount that the buyer spent or a quarter? Rav and Shmuel disagree about the percentage by which the sikrikon would decrease the price when selling the land when selling it, which led them to a different answer to the previous question.

Gittin 57 - July 12, 23 Tamuz Jul 12, 2023

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Onkelos the convert was the nephew of Titus. He went and raised Titus, Bilam and others from the dead and asked them questions about the Jews and the punishments they each received for their actions. The Mount of the King was destroyed because of a rooster and a hen. How and why were the people of Kfar Sichniya in Egypt destroyed? Beitar was destroyed (during the Bar Kochva rebellion) on account of a shaft of a carriage. Zecharia the prophet was assassinated by the Jews who did not want to accept his rebuke. After his death, his blood was boiling and rising from the Temple floor and wouldn't stop. This led Nevuzaraden (in the destruction of the first Temple) to slaughter millions of Jews until his death was avenged. Nevuzaraden ultimately converted to Judaism as did the descendants of Haman and Sanchereb who became Torah scholars (among them, Shemaya and Avtalion). There are five different explanations of the verse "For you we have died all of the day" - some relate to stories of the destruction (the children who were taken by boat to engage in prostitution who committed suicide, seven sons of one woman who were killed for not bowing down to idols) and others to circumcision and learning Torah.

Gittin 56 - July 11, 22 Tamuz Jul 11, 2023

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Stories of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza that caused the destruction of Jerusalem, Rabban Yochanan Ban Zakai and Vespasian who grants him three requests including sparing Yavne and its wise men, and Titus and the destruction of the Temple.

Gittin 55 - July 10, 21 Tamuz Jul 10, 2023

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Rabbi Yochanan ben Gudgada testified about several laws, one pertaining to a takana, and the Gemara discusses each of the laws.

Gittin 54 - July 9, 20 Tamuz Jul 09, 2023

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Study Guide Gittin 54

The discussion continues regarding the different opinions in different cases when one does something wrong unwittingly - is one held accountable? A kohen who ruins a sacrifice by pigul is held liable if it was intentional.

Gittin 53 - Shabbat July 8, 19 Tamuz Jul 07, 2023

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Study Guide Gittin 53

Are damages that can't be seen considered damages?