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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 7.

Betrothal and then marriage: When were the two conflated into one ceremony? We will also discuss the formula of the “birkat erusin” the blessing recited upon betrothal.

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

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 7 on Sefaria, please click here.

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 6.

Sex with/for a female virgin on Shabbat: Permitted or not?

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

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 6 on Sefaria, please click here.

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 5.

Why is it is so important that the first sex occurs right before the court sits? Why the urgency for the husband to come to the court should he have a virginity claim?

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

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 5 on Sefaria, please click here.

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 4.

This daf is about mourning that occurs during the week of marriage. Specifically we will address the topic–over whom does one mourn?

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

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 4 on Sefaria, please click here.

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 3.

Among the topics we will cover today is the folklore concerning the so-called “Right of the First Night”–the right of the ruling governor to have sexual relations with a woman on the night of her marriage.

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

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 3 on Sefaria, please click here.

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Dr. Joshua Kulp looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 2.

Today we will introduce the topic of Virginity Claims and especially the difference between the biblical version and the rabbinic version.

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

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 2 on Sefaria, please click here.

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 122.

We can trace, in the positions of Rabbi Akiva, the evolution and expansion of types of testimony which are accepted to show that a husband has died to allow the wife’s remarriage. Are non-Jews a bridge too far, or is there a way to accept testimony as long as we don’t claim that we are doing it? Maybe sages do increase peace in the world after all!

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

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 121.

If someone falls into the water, under what you assume that they drowned? Even some of the most rigid rabbis bend with changing realities in coming up with the answer. Also, how is getting through Daf Yomi like a shipwreck?

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

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 120.

I was suprised to find out that CSI- Crime Scene Investigation, is still on. Our sages wrestled with a lot of the same questions of how to identify a body, what physical evidence is considered sufficient, and what conditions make it easy or harder to do so.

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

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

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Heller looks at Masechet Yevamot, Daf 119.

When do you use circumstantial evidence to decide that an unlikely possibility is actually worth worrying about? Why should the chances of a co-wife having a baby matter more than those of a mother-in-law?

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

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