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1)

(a)What do Beis Shamai and Beis agree with regard to a woman who inherits property before she becomes betrothed?

(b)When is she permitted to sell it and when is she not?

(c)Beis Shamai permit her to sell it even if she inherits it after the engagement. What do Beis Hillel say?

(d)What do they both rule in the event that she did sell it?

2)

(a)Rebbi Yehudah quoted the Chachamim. What did they ask Rabban Gamliel regarding the previous case, where she sold what she inherited during her betrothal?

(b)What did Rabban Gamliel reply?

(c)What do both Beis Shamai and Beis Hillel say about a woman who sells property that she inherits after she is married?

3)

(a)What did Rabban Gamliel rule with regard to a married woman who sells property that she inherited before she married?

(b)What did the Chachamim quoted by Rebbi Chanina ben Akiva ask him?

(c)What was his reply?

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4)

(a)Rebbi Shimon draws a distinction between two categories of property. What are they?

(b)When is her sale valid and when is it not?

(c)Some commentaries define the two categories as Karka and Metalt'lin, respectively. Under which category do others place both of these?

(d)Then how do they define 'property that is not known to the husband'?

5)

(a)What is the Halachah regarding a married woman who sells property that she inherited ...

1. ... before she was engaged?

2. ... during her engagement?

(b)What is the difference in this regard between during her lifetime and after her death?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah with regard to the Machlokes between Rebbi Shimon and the Rabbanan?

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6)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a married woman who inherits ...

1. ... money?

2. ... fruit?

(b)According to Rebbi Meir, if the fruit is still attached to the tree, one assesses the difference between the value of the land with the tree including the fruit and what it is worth without the fruit. What happens next?

(c)What is the basis for this ruling?

7)

(a)The Chachamim agree with the previous ruling regarding fruit that is detached. What do they say regarding attached fruit that a wife inherits?

(b)Considering that the fruit did not grow under his jurisdiction, what is the reason for this?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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8)

(a)What does Rebbi Shimon mean when he says, regarding husband's rights over his wife's property, that where his rights are ...

1. ... strong when they are married, they are weak in the event that he divorces her?

2. ... weak when they are married, they are strong in the event that he divorces her?

(b)Like whom does he hold regarding the previous Machlokes between Rebbi Meir and the Chachamim (with regard to attached fruit)?

(c)In which point do the Chachamim argue with Rebbi Shimon?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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9)

(a)What does the Tana Kama say about old slaves or maidservants that a woman inherits and that either she or her husband want to sell (See Tos Yom-Tov)?

(b)What happens to the proceeds?

(c)And what does he say about aged olive-trees or vines that either of them want to sell?

(d)On what grounds does ...

1. ... Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel object to the former ruling?

2. ... Rebbi Yehudah object to the latter ruling?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah in ...

1. ... the former ruling?

2. ... the latter ruling?

10)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about someone who spends ...

1. ... a large sum of money on his wife's property, and eats only a little?

2. ... a small sum of money on his wife's property and eat a lot?

(b)What if he spent more than the value of what subsequently grows?

(c)What if he ate nothing at all?

(d)The latter ruling applies to where the husband divorced his wife. What if he issued her with a divorce because she rebelled against him?

(e)In which case does he take all that grew in any event?

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11)

(a)What do Beis Shamai and Beis Hillel both say about a Shomeres Yavam who inherits property?

(b)The Mishnah now discusses what happens to her property if she dies. What does 'her Kesubah incorporate?

(c)What is the definition of 'property that comes in and goes out with her'?

(d)Beis Shamai maintain that her heirs and the heirs of her husband divide the latter equally (See Tiferes Yisrael). What do Beis Hillel say about ...

1. ... Nechsei Tzon Barzel (See Tiferes Yisrael)?

2. ... the Kesubah?

3. ... Nechsei Milug?

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12)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a Yavam whose brother dies, leaving him an inheritance consisting of ...

1. ... money?

2. ... fruit?

(b)According to Rebbi Meir, if the fruit is still attached to the tree, one assesses the difference between the value of the land with the tree including the fruit, and what it is worth without the fruit. What happens next?

(c)What is the basis for Rebbi Meir's ruling?

13)

(a)What is wrong with the statement that, according to the Chachamim, fruit that is attached belongs to the husband?

(b)How do we therefore amend the statement to read?

14)

(a)What do the Chachamim hold with regard to fruit that is detached?

(b)What if she gets it first?

(c)By when must she take it for it to be considered her?

(d)Why is it not hers automatically, seeing as it is Meshubad to her Kesubah?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

15)

(a)What will be the Din in the current case should the Yavam perform Yibum with her?

(b)From which Pasuk in Ki Seitzei do we learn this?

(c)What are the two ramifications of this ruling regarding giving the 'Yevamah' a Get?

(d)Why would we otherwise have thought that ...

1. ... a Get will not suffice to break his ties with her?

2. ... once he divorces her, he is forbidden to take her back her?

16)

(a)From whose property does the Yevamah claim her Kesubah?

(b)Why does the Mishnah precede this ruling with the word 'u'Bilevad' (provided [See Tiferes Yisrael])?

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17)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a Yavam who wants to designate cash for his Yevamah's Kesubah (See Tiferes Yisrael)?

(b)Why is that?

(c)What about a regular husband doing that?

(d)What are the ramifications of the current ruling?

(e)What if he divorces her?

18)

(a)What happens to her Kesubah in the event that the Yavam subsequently divorces her and takes her back?

(b)Why might we have thought otherwise?

(c)What does the Tana mean when he concludes that she is only entitled to her Kesubah (See Tiferes Yisrael)?