Daf Yomi for Women – דף יומי לנשים

If one gives a get conditioned upon not returning in 12 months and in the interim, he dies, the get is not valid.  However, Rabbi Yehuda Nesia validated this kind of get and caused a bit of a stir.  In order to give a get, one needs to give the get to his wife.  In today’s daf we learn that it just needs to get into her property.  This raises various questions as to how can this be if a woman’s property that is her own that she brings into the marriage, belongs to her husband while they are married and only returns after she is divorced so how can she receive her divorce document through property that will only become hers after the divorce is effective.  The law is stated that both her divorce and the property become her at the exact same moment.

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The discussion from the last daf continues as to who the mishna is according to – Rabbi Meir or Rabbi Yossi regarding whether or not messengers can set up pther messengers to write and give the get.  If a man divorces his wife conditioning it upon his death – does that work?  Tanna Kama holds that it depend on the wording – if he said this is your get from now if I die, it works – upon his death, the get applies retroactively from the date he gave it.  If not, it doesn’t work. Rabbi Yossi holds that it works in any case because the get is dated from today and therefore the date proves that he meant the get to be effective upon his death retroactive to the date in the get.  Rav Huna’s statement about this mishna is questioned and the gemara struglles to explain according to who he was relating and which case.

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The gemara continues to discuss remedies for various diseases as well as explain what causes some of the various diseases.  The gemara then goes back to discuss the mishna – a person who sent a messenger to write a get and then got kordiyakus and then said not to write the get.  The mishna says we ignore his later orders.  There is an argument between Resh Lakish and Rabbi Yochanan about whether we can write the get while he has the kordiyakus or do we wait until he gets better and then we write it based on his earlier instructions.   This touches again on the power of appointing a messenger.  Is he now acting independent of you?  Or is he only an extension of you and if you are no longer of sound mind, then he can’t act for you?

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The gemara struggles to understand Shmuel’s confusion about how to rule in the case where a husband said to 2 witnesses write and give a get to my wife and they asked a scribe to write the get.  Is the get valid or not?  If one is affected by the demon “kordayakus” after drinking wine, anything he tells a messenger to do regarding giving or canceling a get are disregarded.  What is the remedy for “kordayakus”?  What else can be remedied in the same way?

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There is halachic validity to various acts of children depending on their level of maturity.  There are various stages mapped out in the gemara for different acts.  A minor however cannot appoint a messenger.  If a man or woman appoints a messenger to deliver (man) or accept (woman) the get and specifies a location, if the messenger does it in a different location, is it valid?  Does it depend if it was the man or the woman’s messenger, does it depend on how the request was worded?  If a woman appointed a messenger to accept her get, from what point is she not allowed to eat truma in the event that she was married to a kohen?  What types of commands would be clear that a man intends to send messengers to write a deliver a get?  Which wording does not indicate such?

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