Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Miri Fenton looks at Masechet Yevamot Daf 10.
This daf is in the middle of a long sugiyah that deals with halachic limit cases of Levirate marriage. Reading a mahloket between Reish Lakish and Rabbi Yochanan illuminates some of the legal problems and potential solutions around the idea of “ervah” in this perek. Can a woman’s status as an “ervah” be changed? And if so how might the idea of “ervah” work as a halachic category?
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.
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Miri Fenton is studying at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem this year, having learned at Yeshivat Hadar in New York, and Yeshivat Talpiyot in Jerusalem. She recently completed her MPhil in legal theory and philosophy at Cambridge University, and hopes to continue with graduate research next year.
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