Kiddushin (Iyun)
Kiddushin 42a — Iyun
A lomdus shiur on Kiddushin 42a tracing how the Gemara first considers, then rejects, shlichus as the mechanism behind the nasi's dividing Eretz Yisrael for his shevet, landing instead on the novel din of zechiyah (acting for someone not in front of you). From there the shiur works through the Rishonim's machloket over whether zechiyah is rooted in shlichus — and what that means for a minor's capacity to acquire — before closing with the Rashi-Tosafos debate over grabbing collateral on someone else's behalf.
Kiddushin 42a — Iyun
A lomdus shiur on Kiddushin 42a tracing how the Gemara first considers, then rejects, shlichus as the mechanism behind the nasi's dividing Eretz Yisrael for his shevet, landing instead on the novel din of zechiyah (acting for someone not in front of you). From there the shiur works through the Rishonim's machloket over whether zechiyah is rooted in shlichus — and what that means for a minor's capacity to acquire — before closing with the Rashi-Tosafos debate over grabbing collateral on someone else's behalf.
Kiddushin 7a — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya on using a third party's money (via a guarantor, or arev) to betroth a woman, working through the Ritva and Tosafos Rid on how the benefit (hana'ah) creates the legal obligation.
Kiddushin 7a — Iyun
Continues the sugya on kiddushin through a third party's money, exploring the Machaneh Efraim's view on dual legal connections and when a mere request creates liability.
Kiddushin 5b — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya on the Gemara's two readings of kiddushei kesef, moving through the Rambam and Ramban's dispute over rabbinic stringency, and how a doubtful act -- like an unintentional knot -- can create doubtful kiddushin.
Kiddushin 5a — Iyun
A sugya exploring why the same kesef used to betroth a woman can't also be used to divorce her, working through Abaye's and Rava's competing reasons and the deeper issur-versus-kinyan question underlying kiddushin itself.
Kiddushin 5a–5b — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya on Rav Huna's position that chuppah itself can effect kinyan, the Maharsha and Maharshal's dispute over needing a second chuppah, and the Rambam's own description of how marriage worked before Matan Torah.
Kiddushin 5a–5b — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya on the Rambam and Rav Huna's dispute over whether chuppah itself can effect a kinyan, Rava's challenge that the Mishnah never lists it among the three ways of acquiring a wife, and the twelve-month mourning period's halachic basis.
Kiddushin 41a — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya on whether a man may marry a woman he hasn't seen, the Ran-Rashi debate on whether a woman can accept her own kiddushin, and the principle that performing a mitzvah yourself is better than through an agent.
Kiddushin 41a — Iyun
Continues the Kiddushin sugya on marrying unseen, Rashi's reasoning from derech eretz, and the principle that a mitzvah done personally is better than one done through a messenger.
Kiddushin 41b — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya deriving the concept of an agent (shaliach) from the halachos of a get, asking whether a minor can own terumah or appoint an agent, and whether a woman can serve as one.
Kiddushin 41b — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya deriving the concept of an agent (shaliach) from the halachos of a get, and asking whether a minor can appoint an agent on his own or whether a woman can serve as one.
Kiddushin 42a — Iyun
Explores the source for the principle of shlichus -- that a person's agent acts as an extension of himself -- through the pasuk about the nesi'im dividing Eretz Yisrael among their tribes.
Kiddushin 7b — Iyun
A dense Kiddushin perek 1 shiur (daf 7-8) on whether an object's value must be fixed before it can effect kiddushin, built around the Gemara's proof from the laws of buying an eved ivri. The discussion loops through a parallel sugya on stealing less than a perutah (chatzi shiur), bringing in the Alter Rebbe, the Rogatchover, and the Rebbe's own approach, before circling back to resolve the opening kiddushin question.
Kiddushin 42b — Iyun
A deep sugya on shlichus and liability for a guardian, the Beit Shammai-Beit Hillel debate over whether thinking counts as an act, and how this plays into Chanukah candle-lighting and kiddushin.
Kiddushin 43a — Iyun
Continues the sugya of shlichus, explaining the principle ein shliach l'dvar aveirah -- an agent sent to commit a sin is himself liable, since one must obey the Creator over the one who sent him.
Kiddushin 8a — Iyun
A Gemara chaburah on Kiddushin daf tes, working through the sugya of paying pidyon haben with an object worth less than five sela'im if the kohen says “it's worth that much to me.” Traces the machloket between the Ran and the Rambam over whether that only works if the item could someday reach that value, brings the Bahag's mechilah theory and the Minchas Chinuch's challenge to it, and resolves it with the chassidic distinction between a shiur atzmi (an essential unit) and a shiur metzaref (an added-up value) -- the same idea behind machatzis hashekel and the k'sores on Yom Kippur.
Kiddushin 42b — Iyun
Continues the shlichus sugya on whether intent alone creates liability, the Rogatchover's theory of 'theoretical pull,' and how this applies to muzzling an animal and to Chanukah lighting.