Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 41. Ketubot 41 discusses whether someone who confesses to a crime has to pay a fine, revealing the underlying logic of what fines are really about. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 40. Ketubot 40 discusses when positive commandments override negative commandments and when they don’t. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead. To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 40 on […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 39. Ketubot 39 discusses rape and how to punish it legally. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead. To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 39 on Sefaria, please click […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 38. Ketubot 38 discusses exegetical consistency and maintaining two conflicting versions of a Sage’s opinion. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead. To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 38 […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 37. Ketubot 37 provides an opportunity to discuss the Talmud’s principle of Scriptural omnisignificance – the idea that every verse in the Torah must teach something unique. The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The […]

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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 […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 35. This daf discusses whether serious crimes committed accidentally, that result in property damage, are subject to repayment. We discover in the course of the Talmud’s consideration the relative importance of compensation for damages and maintenance of important social […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 34. Today’s episode continues with the topic of the collision of different punishments, monetary and corporal. In one particularly revealing sugya, we discover something unique about the nature of fines. The opening and closing music for this podcast is […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 33. Today’s episode tries to figure out the Biblical basis for why monetary compensation for victims in cases of assault is preferred to lashing the assailant. Along the way, we see some interesting psychological claims about the preference for […]

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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, William Friedman looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 32. This daf discusses, among other things, how we know whether to choose monetary fines or lashes to punish crimeshis that could receive either. In the course of discussing this question, we once again encounter a tension between analogical […]

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