Daf Yomi Yevamot
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. Fro the next masechet, Ketubot, visit HERE.
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 2–יבמות ב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 3–יבמות ג
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 4–יבמות ד
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 5–יבמות ה
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot – 7–יבמות ז
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 8–יבמות ח
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 9–יבמות ט
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 12–יבמות יב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 14–יבמות יד
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 16–יבמות טז
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 17–יבמות יז
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 19–יבמות יט
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 20–יבמות כ
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 22-יבמות כב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 23–יבמות כג
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yavamot 24–יבמות כד
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 25–יבמות כה
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 26–יבמות כו
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 28–יבמות כח
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 30–יבמות ל
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 33–יבמות לג
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 34–יבמות לד
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Daf Yomi Yevamot – Quick Launched Event
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 35–יבמות לה
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 36–יבמות לו
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 37–יבמות לז
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 38–יבמות לח
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 39– יבמות לט
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 40–יבמות מ
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 41- יבמות מא
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 43–יבמות מג
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 44–יבמות מד
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 48–יבמות מח
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 50–יבמות נ
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 51–יבמות נא
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 52–יבמות נב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 53–יבמות נג
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 55-יבמות נה
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 62–יבמות סב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 64-יבמות סד
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 70-יבמות ע
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.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 75–יבמות עה
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 76–יבמות עו
Yevamot 76a and Yevamot 76b, how to heal some wounds to a man’s reproductive organ to allow him to marry ordinary Jewish women, and then the women a permanently wounded man may marry, as well as the issue of the prohibition of Moabites and Ammonites applying only to the men, not the women.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 77–יבמות עז
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 78–יבמות עח
Yevamot 78a and Yevamot 78b, men, women, and children where lineage issues arise, who is affected and how. Then, on to the world of mamzer and netin, including a start on how and why the Givonites were permanently ruled out as marriage partners for ordinary Jews.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 79–יבמות עט
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 81–יבמות פא
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 82–יבמות פב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 83–יבמות פג
Yevamot 83a and Yevamot 83b, along the way to figuring out the status of an androgynos, discussion of four topics where Rav and Shemuel thought we followed R. Yose and R. Shim’on, two by Rav and two by Shemuel, and then back to whether an androgynos is treated fully as a man, or as possibly a man, and for what areas of halacha.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 87- יבמות פז
Yevamot 87a and Yevamot 87b, when women can and cannot eat terumah and/or the priestly gifts from sacrifices, the role of living offspring in determining that, and then a new chapter, with what happens when a woman remarries based on word her husband had passed away and he turns out to be alive.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 91–יבמות צא
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 92–יבמות צב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 93–יבמות צג
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 94–יבמות צד
Yevamot 94a and Yevamot 94b, firming up our answer to whether we believe one witness about the death of a yabam, and then the beginning discussion of where a man marries his wife’s sister based on faulty information.
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 97–יבמות צז
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 100–יבמות ק
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 105–יבמות קה
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 109–יבמות קט
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 112–יבמות קיב
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 113–יבמות קיג
Daf Yomi Yevamot: Yevamot 120-יבמות קכ
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.