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    Masechet Kiddushin - home, parents and study

    58 lessons covering the whole tractate, all four chapters (2a-82b): ways of kiddushin, agency, conditions and lineage.

    01

    Chapter 1 · Ways of kiddushin

    6 lessons
    1. 01
      Three ways of kiddushin - opening the tractate
      18 min
    2. 02
      Deriving kiddushin through money
      20 min
    3. 03
      Formulas and giving the money
      20 min
    4. 04
      Kiddushin by document
      20 min
    5. 05
      Kiddushin through relations
      20 min
    6. 06
      Money and the peruta - threshold and value
      20 min
    02

    Chapter 2 · Servitude and release

    3 lessons
    1. 07
      The Hebrew servant and the pierced servant
      20 min
    2. 08
      The Hebrew maidservant and designation
      20 min
    3. 09
      The Canaanite slave - acquisition and release
      20 min
    03

    Chapter 3 · Acquiring property

    2 lessons
    1. 10
      Animals - delivery, pulling, and lifting
      20 min
    2. 11
      Land, movables, and acquisition alongside land
      20 min
    04

    Chapter 4 · Parents and children

    4 lessons
    1. 12
      A father's duties to his son
      16 min
    2. 13
      Three partners in a person - honoring parents
      17 min
    3. 14
      Dama ben Netina - a story of honoring a father
      15 min
    4. 15
      Reverence, honor, and limits
      20 min
    05

    Chapter 5 · Mitzvot and study

    4 lessons
    1. 16
      Time-bound positive commandments
      20 min
    2. 17
      Commandments dependent on the land
      20 min
    3. 18
      Reward and responsibility for action
      20 min
    4. 19
      Is study greater, or action?
      15 min
    06

    Chapter 6 · Bridge to chapter two - agency

    1 lessons
    1. 20
      Agency - a bridge to the next chapter
      20 min
    07

    Chapter 7 · Chapter 2 - HaIsh Mekadesh

    14 lessons
    1. 21
      Betrothal through an agent - validity and personal participation
      18 min
    2. 22
      The sources of agency - comparing legal domains
      18 min
    3. 23
      Dividing orphans’ estates - benefit, authority, and error
      18 min
    4. 24
      No agency for transgression - rule and exceptions
      18 min
    5. 25
      An agent as a witness - action and testimony
      18 min
    6. 26
      A naara and a minor - receipt and consent
      18 min
    7. 27
      Dates and a loan - what is being given now
      18 min
    8. 28
      Craft wages and misdescription - defining the consideration
      18 min
    9. 29
      Conditions and unspoken intentions - what was expressed
      18 min
    10. 30
      Bridal gifts and sisters - evidence and uncertain betrothal
      18 min
    11. 31
      Theft and sacrificial portions - what belongs to the giver
      18 min
    12. 32
      Second tithe and sacred property - distinct disputes
      18 min
    13. 33
      A found animal and tithe funds - resolving uncertain sanctity
      18 min
    14. 34
      Prohibited benefit and proceeds - identifying valid consideration
      18 min
    08

    Chapter 8 · Chapter 3 - HaOmer

    10 lessons
    1. 35
      Agency and trust - validity versus fairness
      18 min
    2. 36
      After thirty days - money, retraction, and effect
      18 min
    3. 37
      From now and later - condition, retraction, or reservation
      18 min
    4. 38
      On condition - timing and the promised property
      18 min
    5. 39
      Double conditions - rule or contextual meaning
      18 min
    6. 40
      Future legal states - what is really within one’s control
      18 min
    7. 41
      Services and paternal approval - reading the condition precisely
      18 min
    8. 42
      A father’s credibility and ambiguity - limits of knowledge
      18 min
    9. 43
      Admission and one witness - who is bound and who proves
      18 min
    10. 44
      Mapping lineage - betrothal validity and the child’s status
      18 min
    09

    Chapter 9 · Chapter 4 - Asara Yuchasin

    14 lessons
    1. 45
      Ten lineage categories - mapping the Mishnah
      18 min
    2. 46
      Coming from Babylonia - Ezra and established status
      18 min
    3. 47
      Disqualifying others - suspicion is not a ruling
      18 min
    4. 48
      An absorbed family - limits on disclosure
      18 min
    5. 49
      The congregation of converts - defining the prohibition
      18 min
    6. 50
      Shetuki and asufi - uncertainty and a lineage safeguard
      18 min
    7. 51
      Baduki - inquiry and the mother’s credibility
      18 min
    8. 52
      Definite and doubtful status - testing a general rule
      18 min
    9. 53
      Checking maternal ancestry - when evidence is needed
      18 min
    10. 54
      Halal status - transmission and additional prohibitions
      18 min
    11. 55
      Recognition and uncertain timing - limits of authority
      18 min
    12. 56
      Children following her - evidence and family presumption
      18 min
    13. 57
      Seclusion - conditions and humility before temptation
      18 min
    14. 58
      A trade and Torah - a future and hope
      18 min
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