REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI

Prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
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KESUVOS 43
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1)
(a) What did Rav Avina ask Rav Sheshes in connection with a girl whose father died and who is fed by her brothers?
(b) The reason that she might is because they have now taken the place of their father. Why might she not?
(c) Rav Sheshes resolved the She'eilah with a Mishnah in the eleventh Perek. What does the Tana there say about the produce of a widow who is fed by the heirs?
(d) On what grounds did Rav Avina reject Rav Sheshes' proof from there (that the same would apply to a daughter)? Why might the products of a daughter be different?
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2)
(a) We query this however, from a Rebbi Aba Amar Rebbi Yosi. What did he say about a man who dies, leaving behind ...
1. ... sons and a widow, and Nechasim Mu'atim (insufficient property to provide for both)?
2. ... a widow and a daughter - and Nechasim Mu'atim?
(b) How do we reconcile this with Rav Avina, who just said that, when it is a matter of priority, a man prefers his daughter to live comfortably rather than his widow?
(c) What does Rav Yosef extrapolate from the previous Mishnah, which stated that what a girl produces or finds, goes to her brothers after her father dies, even though she has not yet claimed them, which appears to disprove Rav Sheshes?
(d) How do we refute this Kashya?
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3)
(a) We query the previous answer however, from a ruling that distinguishes between an Eved Kena'ani and an Eved Ivri. What may one say to the former but no to the latter?
(b) What problem does this create with our Mishnah, which, to answer Rav Yosef's Kashya on Rav Sheshes, we just established when the daughter is not being fed by her brothers?
(c) Why can the Chidush not be the statement itself (that what she produced during her father's lifetime belongs to her brothers in the event of his death)?
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4)
(a) To answer Rav Yosef's Kashya, Rabah bar Ula establishes our Mishnah by Ha'adafah. What is 'Ha'adafah'?
(b) What is now the Chidush?
(c) Why might we have thought that it should go to the brothers?
(d) What problem does Rava have with Rav Yosef's Kashya initial Kashya, seeing as the answer seems so straightforward?
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5)
(a) So Rava relearns Rav Yosef's Kashya on Rav Sheshes. What problem did Rav Yosef have with our Mishnah, which says 'Ma'aseh Yadehah u'Metzi'asah, Af Al Pi she'Lo Gavsah ... '?
(b) How then, does Rav Yosef interpret the Tana's words? What has he achieved with this?
(c) Why is it obvious that what a girl finds after her father's death does not belong to her brothers?
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6)
(a) Rav Yehudah Amar Rav also learns like Rav Yosef, though, according to Rav Kahana, his source is the Pasuk in Behar "v'Hisnachaltem Osam li'Veneichem Achareichem" (written in connection with Avadim Kena'anim). How does he extrapolate Rav Yosef's Din from this Pasuk?
(b) Rabah disagrees with Rav Yosef and with Rav. How does he interpret the Pasuk "v'Hisnachaltem Osam ... "?
(c) On what grounds do the latter, any more tha the former, go to the brothers)?
(d) What does Rebbi Chanina citing a Beraisa, say in this regard?
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7)
(a) Rabah included 'Chavalos' in his list of things that the father does not pass on to his sons. What is the problem with that?
(b) Rebbi Yosi b'Rebbi Chanina establishes Rabah when the assailant wounded her in the face. How does that answer the Kashya?
(c) When Rav Masna quoted Rav like Rav Yehudah did on the previous Amud, Rav Avimi bar Papi commented that Shakud said it. Who is Shakud? What did Rav Avimi bar Papi mean by that comment?
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8)
Neherda'i and Rav Ashi dispute whether the Halachah is like Rav Sheshes or like Rav. What is the final conclusion?
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9)
(a) Our Mishnah discusses a father who arranged the betrothal of his daughter twice: initially, and again after her divorce. Finally, her second 'husband' died, leaving her still a Na'arah or a Ketanah. Is a betrothed girl eligible to receive a Kesubah?
(b) Who receives the two Kesuvos?
(c) If however, she was already married to her second husband before he died, then both Kesuvos go to the girl herself. Why should the first Kesubah go to her?
(d) What does Rebbi Yehudah say?
(e) Amru Lo disagree. What do they say about a woman who gets married?
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10)
(a) Why does the Tana present the case of a girl who was divorced once and widowed once, and not when she was widowed twice?
(b) Our Mishnah is a Stam Mishnah like Rebbi. What does Rebbi say?
(c) How do Rabah and Rav Yosef initially explain Rebbi Yehudah, who says in our Mishnah that it is the girl's father who receives the first Kesubah?
(d) Then why does he not receive the second Kesubah, too?
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11)
(a) What does Rebbi Yehudah say in a case where the father arranged his daughter's betrothal, but she married after she became a Bogeres?
(b) Why does this present Rabah and Rav Yosef with a Kashya?
(c) So what is really the criterion according to them?
(d) At which stage is the Kesubah written?
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12)
(a) What do we mean when we ask from when the Kesubah is claimed? Who is to claim from whom?
(b) According to Rav Huna, he may claim the Manah (of a widow) and Masayim (of a Besulah) from the Erusin and the Tosefes, from the time of writing. Why the difference?
(c) Rav Asi says that he may only claim both from the time of writing. Why is that?
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13)
(a) Rav Huna speaks about a woman who produces two Kesuvos, one of two hundred Zuz, the other, of three. Which one is dated earlier?
(b) What does Rav Huna rule?
(c) How do we counter the Kashya that, according to Rav Huna's ruling in the previous question, she ought to be able to claim two hundred Zuz from the first date and one hundred from the second date?
(d) So why can she not claim ...
1. ... the full five hundred, in Rav Huna's second ruling?
2. ... the full three hundred in his first ruling?
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