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Daf Notes: Minimum Number of Coins of Different Denominations
brought to you by:Kollel Iyun Hadaf of Har Nofdaf@shemayisrael.co.ilThe braisa teaches that when a shtar mentions that a person borrowed “gold dinarin” but it does not mention the number of dinarin, the creditor may claim only two gold dinarin, since ...
Dateline: 2010-02-04 4:31pm PT (800 words)
 
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Daf Notes: Who Pays for the Clock?
By: Meoros HaDaf HaYomiThe Forgers’ SchemeA person who wants to show a specimen of his signature to a Beis Din should not sign at the bottom of a blank page. A few years ago the Torah community in Yerushalayim was outraged when a claim was presented to ...
Dateline: 2010-02-04 4:31pm PT (1762 words)
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Daf Notes: Most People are Guilty of some sort of Thievery
By: Meoros HaDaf HaYomiDear Customer, Please Note: This Book is not Proofread at allRav Yehudah asserts in the name of Rav that most people are guilty of some sort of thievery and, as Rashbam explains (s.v. Rov begezel), this means that most people transa...
Dateline: 2010-02-03 2:01am PT (1038 words)
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Daf Notes: No Person is Saved from these Transgressions
brought to you by Kollel Iyun Hadaf of Har NofThe Gemora states: Rav Amram said in the name of Rav that there are three transgressions from which no person is saved every day. They are: thoughts of sin, examining one’s prayers (Rashbam – feeling overc...
Dateline: 2010-02-01 11:31am PT (679 words)
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Daf Notes: Mentioning the Praise of Others
Another time Rabbi Shimon was sitting in Rebbe’s presence when he finished a section of the Book of Psalms (one of the five books that Tehillim is divided into). Rebbe said, “How neat is this writing!” Rabbi Shimon replied, “I did not write it; Ye...
Dateline: 2010-02-01 11:31am PT (421 words)
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Daf Notes: Grandson vs. buyer
The Gemora rules: If a son sold the estate of his father (the portion which he was supposed to inherit) during the lifetime of the father, and he died (first the son and then the father), his son (the son of the son) may seize it from the purchasers (for ...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 9:31am PT (346 words)
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Daf Notes: Invalidated Contracts and Gaps in Sechach
Last Line of the ContractRabbi Yochanan says that a contract must review its content in the last line, and Rav Amram explained that this is because we disregard anything in the last line before the signatures.The Rishonim explain that we fulfill this by w...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 9:31am PT (1140 words)
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Daf Notes: Amount of Lines that Invalidate a Document
The Gemora asks: And how much is the space that disqualifies a document?Rav Yitzchak ben Elozar said: As much space as would be required for the writing of “lecha, lecha” above each other. [The “lamed” is a tall letter, and that should not touch t...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 9:31am PT (474 words)
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Daf Notes: Kinyan Kesef
The Mishna had stated: If a man verbally divides his property among his inheritors, Rabbi Elozar says that whether he is healthy or dangerously ill (he is required to make a formal kinyan to transfer his property), real property (land) can be transferred ...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 8:16am PT (249 words)
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Daf Notes: Yahrtzeit; Paying a Father's Debt; Davar shelo ba L'olam
A YahrtzeitRabbi Meir Shapiro, the founder of the Daf Hayomi passed away on the day that those who were studying the daf during that cycle were learning Kesuvos 91.The Gemora states: The orphans have a mitzvah to pay the debt of their father.Hundreds of R...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 8:16am PT (698 words)
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Daf Notes: Dancing at a distant Wedding
DISTANT CELEBRATION OFREB AKIVA EIGER’S WEDDINGReb Wolf Eiger, the uncle of Reb Akiva Eiger was unable to attend his nephew’s wedding. He made a simultaneous banquet of his own to celebrate the occasion. Reb Shaya Pik and other Rabbanim attended the f...
Dateline: 2010-01-31 8:16am PT (598 words)
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Daf Notes: The famous get delivered at Cleves
If He’s Healthy, He must Produce Evidence that he was MoribundThe famous get delivered at ClevesNot many divorce cases have earned a special name or deserved to be assiduously detailed in halachic literature. One outstanding case, though, was that of Yi...
Dateline: 2010-01-29 5:01am PT (1075 words)
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Daf Notes: Defiling the Dead and Autopsies
Defiling the DeadRabbi Akiva had said that we cannot examine the corpse to determine if he was a minor or an adult at the time of his death, for it will be defiling the dead.Reb Yosef Engel in Gilyonei HaShas writes that he did not find a source to the pr...
Dateline: 2010-01-29 5:01am PT (859 words)
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Daf Notes: POST 2000!!!!!!! --- Testimony
Real Estate TestimonyMar Zutra says that one between thirteen and twenty may testify on matters related to movable property, but not on real estate. Rashbam says that someone that age does not have a clear understanding of transactions involving real esta...
Dateline: 2010-01-29 5:01am PT (1245 words)
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Daf Notes: Inheritor or Guardian?
Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary http://www.daf-yomi.orgThe Gemora rules: It is obvious that if he designated all of his property to his adult son, we assume that he only appointed him to be a guardian (for he would not want to take away his other ...
Dateline: 2009-12-31 5:16pm PT (314 words)
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