Talking Talmud

More on inheritance - with a harsh pronouncement: a man who dies without sons is reflecting God's wrath. Plus, the story of R. Yochanan, who focused on the inheritance in students, because he himself had lost 10 sons. As well as R. Yehoshua ben Levi's special effort to pay a shiva visit/ condolence call to those who died without sons. Also, the hierarchy or priority of heirs, and how that is passed on to the next heirs as well.

How a husband has the right to inherit from his wife. Plus, identifying the players of the biblical genealogies of yesterday's daf. Also, a discussion of whether the time of death has implications for the inheritance (spoiler: it doesn't). Plus, a visit to an ill person -- by 3 or 2 people, who can either make a court for him, or simply witness a will.

When interpreting a verse from genealogies in the Book of Chronicles becomes an essential point to the laws of inheritance -- when the son, Yair, had cities (read: land) that his father Seguv seems not to have had. So the inference is that Yair inherited from his mother. Also, the Gemara goes back to the cases of a woman who inherits from her father and has to marry within the same tribe... which complicates matters immeasurably, especially if and when the likely case is that the parents are not necessarily from the same tribe.

With many topics on this daf… the case of a son and a daughter inheriting their mother's estate, with the debate over the son's precedence. With a lot of discussion about who agrees with whom. Note the 2 Rav Huna's. Plus, the cloak of Rabbi Yehuda Nesia - which brings us back to the son/daughter inheritance question. Also, the question of a woman inheriting from her husband (she doesn't), even though the husband inheriting from the wife is a given (with proof from the daughters of Tzlofchad, again).

A discourse on the families in the Torah -- including the children of Aaron, with regard to establishing the laws of inheritance. Also, back to halakhah - where sons inherit their father's estate, and the debate over whether daughters should be inheriting in the same measure as sons, and how the daughters of Tzlofchad prove to the contrary.

A person's son is considered to be his primary son, and not even the deceased's father, but the father may precede the deceased's daughter. Which raises the question whether the father should take precedence over the son too. Plus the question of the paternal uncle. Also, delving into the biblical text establishing these ties of kinship - including establishing the father's side of the family as "family" (but the mother's side is also called "family"). Plus, the tricky issue of naming people who are not in a given tribe by the name of that tribe (e.g., Levi and Yehudah).

A new chapter! With an introduction to the basis of the laws of inheritance. Including the rules of the first-born, and referring to the daughters of Tzlofchad. The first mishnah gives the list of who inherits and bequeaths to each other, who inherits but doesn't bequeath, doesn't inherit, but does bequeath, and neither. The Gemara wants to address the order of these cases -- including the fact that the sages did not want to begin the mishnah with calamity. Plus, cases reminiscent of Yevamot with cases of yibum and inheritance.

A case of a debtor coming to collect a deceased father's debt from one of two brothers who had divided their father's estate: is the brother who covered the debt left high and dry or do they redistribute the entirety of the estate? Also, what do judges do when they are in the process of appraising and distributing property for orphans, and they disagree about the appraisal? Plus, what happens when a seller sells half a field without specifying which portion? Or specifying inexactly? Also, how a fence should be set up to divide that land.