Join Rabbi Gidon Rothstein for a daily shiur of the Daf Yomi Masechet Yevamot given each morning from the Young Israel of Scarsdale, New York. For the previous masechet, click HERE for the Daf Yomi Chagigah course.
PLEASE NOTE: Classes are NOT held on Shabbat (Saturday) or Jewish holidays. For those days and any other days when the teacher may not be available at the regularly scheduled time, a pre-recorded lesson will be posted. The live classes will take place Sundays at 7:30am EST and Monday-Friday at 6:15am EST.
March 9, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 2–יבמות ב
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Welcome to Yevamot! Today’s Yevamot 2a and Yevamot 2b will start with an introduction, and then begins discussing which women married to a deceased brother are ineligible for yibum or halitzah.
March 10, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 3–יבמות ג
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Yevamot 3a and Yevamot 3b, figuring out why the Mishnah ordered itself as it did, what it excluded with the numbers of relationships at the beginning and the end, how we know that prohibited women negate the possibility of yibum for themselves, their co wives, and on down the line, and asking why we needed a verse to tell us that.
March 11, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 4–יבמות ד
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Yevamot 4a and Yevamot 4b, on our long journey to figuring out how we know an obligation can push aside a prohibition, a discussion of whether we infer ideas from juxtaposition in the Torah.
March 12, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 5–יבמות ה
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Yevamot 5a and Yevamot 5b, coming to the idea of aseh doheh lo ta’aseh if the verses regarding tzitzit don’t work, meeting all kinds of levels of obligation and prohibition along the way.
March 14, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot – 7–יבמות ז
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Yevamot 7a and Yevamot 7b, pursuing the question of why a verse was needed to teach us other arayot are not eligible for yibum, why the principle of an obligation pushing aside a prohibition doesn’t do it, why a kal va-homer doesn’t do it, and more.
March 15, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 8–יבמות ח
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Yevamot 8a and Yevamot 8b, our continuing attempts to understand the need for verses to tell us a woman prohibited for other reasons may not be included in yibum, nor may her co-wives.
March 16, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 9–יבמות ט
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Yevamot 9a and Yevamot 9b, how we know the special sacrifices for error are only for a sin involving the possibility of karet, and why there are only fifteen relationships mentioned in our Mishnah, not 16.
March 17, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 10–יבמות י
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Yevamot 10a and Yevamot 10b, figuring out how our Mishnah decided to have only 15 relationships and not 16, as Levi had asked Rebbe, and received a sharp reproach.
March 19, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 12–יבמות יב
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Yevamot 12a and Yevamot 12b, which co-wives are implicated by complicated wives–one who had an affair, who nullified the marriage (as a minor) through mi’un (and who can still be a minor), or a woman physically unable to have children, an aylonit.
March 21, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 14–יבמות יד
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Yevamot 14a and Yevamot 14b, whether Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel acted on their perspectives of their disputes, how the issue of lo titgodedu, not creating divisions in the Jewish people, figures into the equation, and the respect the two sides showed each other.
March 23, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 16–יבמות טז
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Yevamot 16a and Yevamot 16b, after proving Beit Shammai did act on their views, a story about how matters were turned around, leading us to other halachic issues, and lineage issues.
March 24, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 17–יבמות יז
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Yevamot 17a and Yevamot 17b, finishing the first chapter and its discussion of problematic lineage, starting the second chapter and its discussion of zikah, the connection between the widow of the childless man and his surviving brothers.
March 26, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 19–יבמות יט
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Yevamot 19a and Yevamot 19b, working out when R. Shim’on allowed a brother born after another brother’s demise could perform yibum on his widow (if she had yibum with another brother in-between), with its various zikah ramifications, and what it means to have “tried” to perform ma’amar with a woman.
March 27, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 20–יבמות כ
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Yevamot 20a and Yevamot 20b, why the Rabbis are sure yibum creates a full marriage and yet a third brother must experience the widow as part of her original marriage as well, and then the impact of lesser prohibitions on yibum or halitzah possibilities.
March 29, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 22-יבמות כב
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Yevamot 22a and Yevamot 22b, figuring out which sheniyyot, secondary prohibited sexual relationships, go up and down all the generations, and why, and then the ways a mamzer counts as a full child or a full brother.
March 30, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 23–יבמות כג
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Yevamot 23a and Yevamot 23b, figuring out how we know it is non-Jews and partially converted slaves whose children don’t count for yibum, and then permutations of when it is not known which of sisters a man married, and he then passed without children.
March 31, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yavamot 24–יבמות כד
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Yevamot 24a and Yevamot 24b, why and how we know the eldest brother is preferred for yibum, and then what happens when people are suspected of inappropriate relationships and they then become available.
April 1, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 25–יבמות כה
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Yevamot 25a and Yevamot 25b, when and what rumors of infidelity we have to worry about, and when a person’s involvement in ending a marriage means he should not marry the former wife.
April 2, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 26–יבמות כו
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Yevamot 26a and Yevamot 26b, cases where we need not suspect illicit motives in helping end a marriage, and then a new chapter, bringing us back to two brothers married to two sisters, when both husbands pass away without offspring.
April 4, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 28–יבמות כח
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Yevamot 28a and Yevamot 28b, figuring out the examples of the Mishnah teaching us about how zikah works, the connection created between the widows of a man/men who passed away without offspring and the surviving brothers.
April 6, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 30–יבמות ל
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Yevamot 30a and Yevamot 30b, permutations of three brothers, two of them married to sisters, when the connection is created among wives in terms of not being eligible for yibum, and what that means in terms of the rabbinic idea of zikah.
April 8, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 32–יבמות לב
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Yevamot 32a and Yevamot 32b, finishing up how to deal with a woman who has been widowed from two brothers, and then the question of how multiple prohibitions can take effect.
April 9, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 33–יבמות לג
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Yevamot 33a and Yevamot 33b, figuring out how R. Hiyya and Bar Kappara got different impressions of Rebbe’s view of when a second prohibition can take effect, and then on to where wives got swapped and how to restore the marriages.
April 10, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 34–יבמות לד
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Yevamot 34a and Yevamot 34b, figuring out who authored our Mishnah, which assumes prohibitions can add on to each other, if they add (mosif), incorporate others (kolel), or come at the same time. Along the way, it gets us into a discussion of how pregnancy does or doesn’t happen.
April 11, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 35–יבמות לה
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Yevamot 35a and Yevamot 35b, ending the chapter figuring out when there was a requirement of three months, and then a new chapter on whether halitzah or yibum takes effect with a pregnant widow.
April 12, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 36–יבמות לו
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Yevamot 36a and Yevamot 36b, figuring out the debate between R. Yohanan and Resh Lakish as to the status of a halitzah or yibum performed with a pregnant woman, with possible support sources on each side, and then two other examples of where we follow Resh Lakish rather than R. Yohanan.
April 13, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 37–יבמות לז
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Yevamot 37a and Yevamot 37b, when we require a couple to separate permanently because they got married too soon, and how we figure out who the father was of a pregnancy, in the name of being sure of lineage, and then how we apportion inheritance when we are not sure of the father of the possible-yibum child.
April 14, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 38–יבמות לח
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Yevamot 38a and Yevamot 38b, assigning financial rights within a yibum situation, when we don’t know if a child is the child of the deceased man or not, and when a woman inherits property while awaiting yibum.
April 15, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 39– יבמות לט
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Yevamot 39a and Yevamot 39b, the financial rights of a woman waiting for yibum, and then who is the preferred brother for yibum, and when yibum is better, when halitzah might be better.
April 16, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 40–יבמות מ
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Yevamot 40a and Yevamot 40b, the rights and prohibitions on a man who did halitzah, whether he (or a brother who did actual yibum) receives the deceased’s property, what levels of relatives of the couple who did halitzah are prohibited to each other, and why cowives and/or their relatives are prohibited.
April 17, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 41- יבמות מא
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Yevamot 41a and Yevamot 41b, when relatives of women with whom one might have had yibum are or are not permitted, and then the 3 month waiting period before a woman leaving one marriage may remarry.
April 19, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 43–יבמות מג
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Yevamot 43a and Yevamot 43b, deciding when and whether a debate tells us not to follow a stam Mishnah, and then what R. Yose held about a widow remarrying within the mourning period.
April 20, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 44–יבמות מד
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Yevamot 44a and Yevamot 44b, how we know there is only one yibum or halitzah per deceased offspringless man, and then starting the question of when a relationship produces a mamzer and/or disqualification for kehunah.
April 23, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 47–יבמות מז
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Yevamot 47a and Yevamot 47b, the process of converting people, what we tell them, what kind of proof they need, what kind of commitment they must demonstrate.
April 24, 2022 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 48–יבמות מח
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Yevamot 48a and Yevamot 48b, purchasing and absorbing non-Jewish partially converted servants and/or an eshet yefat to’ar, a woman taken captive in war, and how they can become more Jewish.
April 26, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 50–יבמות נ
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Yevamot 50a and Yevamot 50b, finishing the discussion of whether Gd gives a maximum life span at birth and how the adjustable life affects prophecies, and then on to when and how multiple ceremonies–haliltzah, get, ma’amar, yibum–interact with and affect each other.
April 27, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 51–יבמות נא
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Yevamot 51a and Yevamot 51b, why Rabban Gamliel rejected repeat ma’amar or get, the relationship between this debate and the debate over whether there is zikah, and the level of impact of ma’amar for Rabban Gamliel, the Sages, and others.
April 28, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 52–יבמות נב
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Yevamot 52a and Yevamot 52b, proper and improper ways to marry, failed divorces that nonetheless have a whiff of a bill of divorce to them, sufficient for the woman not to be allowed to marry a kohen.
April 29, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 53–יבמות נג
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Yevamot 53a and Yevamot 53b, finishing our investigation of how multiple acts of yibum, halitzah, get, or ma’amar interact, moving on to the kind of marital relations that do or do not effectuate yibum.
May 1, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 55-יבמות נה
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Yevamot 55a and Yevamot 55b, when relatives count on either the mother or father’s side and when only the father’s, why the Torah sometimes stresses an act of marital relations and sometimes a partial act already counts, and the definition of partial and full sexual relations.
May 2, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 56–יבמות נו
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Yevamot 56a and Yevamot 56b, completing our discussion of the definition of a sexual act, and then which relationships do or do not allow women to eat terumah.
May 4, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 58–יבמות נח
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Yevamot 58a and Yevamot 58b, what kind of problematic marriages do or do not allow a woman to eat terumah, and/or lose her her original right to eat terumah.
May 7, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 61–יבמות סא
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Yevamot 61a and Yevamot 61b, being picked Kohen Gadol in the middle of a marriage process, and then regular kohanim and their marriage rules and restrictions.
May 8, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 62–יבמות סב
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Yevamot 62a and Yevamot 62b, the halfway point of the tractate! A discussion of the obligation on men to procreate, how many children that means, of what gender, whether grandchildren count, whether children had while not Jewish count, and more.
May 10, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 64-יבמות סד
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Yevamot 64a and Yevamot 64b, when infertility requires a couple to separate in the name of finding success at childbirth, moving us to the Avot and Imahot, and their difficulties with childbirth.
May 11, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 65–יבמות סה
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Yevamot 65a and Yevamot 65b, women who have trouble having children in two, three, or four marriages, and their financial consequences, and then the mitzvah of procreation.
May 16, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 70-יבמות ע
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Yevamot 70a and Yevamot 70b, finishing our discussion of pregnancies and descendants who do or do not allow the eating of terumah, moving on to a new chapter, what halachic handicaps–such as lack of circumcision–affect the ability to participate in which rituals.
June 5, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Daf Yomi Yavamot
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June 6, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Daf Yomi Yavamot
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June 6, 2022 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 91–יבמות צא
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Yevamot 91a and Yevamot 91b, more on the consequences of a woman’s premature remarriage when it turns out her husband was still alive, including a discussion of whether her having done all she could is enough to protect her from those consequences.
Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has semicha from YU (RIETS) and a PhD from Harvard. He has worked in shul rabbinate, high school and adult education. He is the author of both fiction and non-fiction, most recently "As If We Were There: Readings for a Transformative Passover Experience". He lives in Riverdale, NY.