Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 36.

Ketubot 36 contains a fascinating and troubling discussion of whether kidnapped women are assumed to have been raped. We see that two sages, Rabbi Yehudah and Rabbi Dosa, fight back against this presumption in order to prevent such women from being further victimized. This is a stunning example of the Talmud explicitly grappling with the social consequences of its laws.

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 36 on Sefaria, please click here.

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.