Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here Converts are like Sapachas Rabbi Chelbo said (Kiddushin 70) : Converts are as harmful to the Jewish people as sapachas (a type of tzara’as). Rashi explains that this is because converts are not so meticulous in the performance of mitzvos, and those Jews...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here (From Meoros Daf HaYomi) Our Gemara (Kiddushin 69) quotes the words of Nechemiya ben Chachalya, who is referred to in Ezra (2:63) as “Hatirshasa.” His job was to attend to King Nebuchadnezzar and to serve him his wine. Based on the Talmud Yerushalmi, ...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak explains a braisa (Gittin 40a) to be dealing with the following case: The master told her, “Become free with this deed (of betrothal) and be betrothed to me with this.” [In this case, she was obviously not freed from beforehan...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here The braisa states: How do we know that if a male from any nation (other than the seven nations of Canaan, where by the other nations, the prohibition of “you shall not spare the life of any soul” does not apply) cohabited with a Canaanite woman (where...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here The braisa states: King Yannai once went to Kuchlis, which is located in the desert, and captured sixty of its villages. When he came back, he was very happy, and called together all of the Torah scholars. He said: Our fathers ate salty vegetables when th...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here The Gemora (Kiddushin 63) proves that Rabbi Meir holds a man may sell something that is not yet in existence from the following braisa: If a man said to a woman, “You shall be betrothed to me after I convert,” or “After you shall convert,” or “A...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here The Rambam (Issurei Bi’ah 14:2) writes that we inform the prospective convert the essentials of the faith, which is the unity of God and the prohibition of idolatry, and they go on at great length about these matters. The Machaneh Chaim (Y”D II, 45) a...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here *** The Mishna had stated: And similarly, if a man says to a woman, “Become betrothed to me after thirty days,” and someone else betroths her within thirty days, she is betrothed to the second person. The Ramban writes that the first kiddushin was not...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here The Gemora (Kiddushin 50) asks: How does Rava know that “words that are only in the heart are not regarded as words”? Perhaps it is from the following braisa: It is written regarding a sacrifice: He shall bring it. This teaches us that we force him to...

Subscribe to the Daily Daf Yomi Summary here The Gemora Kiddushin Daf 28 states: One who calls someone else a slave should be excommunicated! If he calls him a mamzer, he receives lashes! If he calls him an evil person, he (the insulted person) may descend against his life (he is permitted to hate h...