Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

There are circumstances when the marriage was permitted yet the levirate marriage is prohibited • There are circumstances when the levirate marriage is permitted yet the initial marriage was prohibited • There are circumstances where both are permitted, and where both prohibited • A Kohenes may marry a Chalal, a disqualified Kohen• A Kohen should try to marry a Kohenes • Men and women are typically subject to the same prohibitions, with three exceptions

As descendants from Ruth the Moabitess and Na'amah the Amonitess, why is the Davidic monarchy legitimate? • What is the quintessential trait of King David and his royal line? • What differentiates the sword of Esau from the scimitar of Yishmael? • May the daughter of an Amonite convert and an Israelite woman marry a Kohen? • May the daughter of a gentile and an Israelite woman marry a Kohen?

Priestly tithes may not be consumed in a state of ritual impurity • What type of uncircumcised are prohibited from consuming priestly tithes? • Does your boss own you?

The counterintuitive contrasting experiences of Jacob, Job, Joshua, and Moses • The Chofetz Chaim's prayer experiences

Marriage and land ownership are fundamental to Man's fulfillment • Domestic violence from Eden until today • Is domestic violence ever tolerable? • Businesses are more lucrative than farming • The ideal of being a gentleman farmer • What is the true role of the Jewish nation in all human punishments? • Horrors of terrible spouses and advice for coping • The supreme bliss of the good wife

Wisdom and wealth are not necessarily correlated • Leadership means service to the community

Solomon's longstanding perspective from the vantage of the throne • What can man truly accomplish? • How should Solomon's perspective impact our regular prayers?

In what ways are inferior relations effective for Levirate marriage? • Does Yibum require witnesses? • Why is Yevamos before Kesubos? • Would Jewish courts coerce a recalcitrant man to marry? • A woman's infidelity renders her prohibited to her husband • This prohibition of defilement requires the testimony of two witnesses to warrant administering lashes to the husband

Why do converts suffer? • God rewards goodness so why did Boaz bless Ruth that God reward her fully? • Mamzeirus: Which illicit relationships bar the resulting progeny from marriage among the Jewish people? • King Menashe's trial and execution of Isaiah the prophet

After a man dies without children, how long must the surviving brothers and widows wait before consummation or severance of their Zika bond? • If they did not wait and engaged in Yibum or Chalitzah, what are the ramifications? • If the widow has an ectopic pregnancy may she immediately sever the levirate bond? • How must a will be structured to be halachically valid? • Fructus rights in halacha