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1) how powerful to say eicha / kinot in spot where 4 months ago 3 killed by terror 2) remarkable to say in way where you are seen on street, onlookers see mourning and you feel uncomfortable - especially when people understand poetry 3) I have never heard actual bawling until now
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Rambam Isurei Bia 18:13: if unmarried woman is pregnant, is she believed as to who father is (regarding lineage).
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Although court can't compel payment without proper testimony, litigant can be forced to swear and should repay by his own choice. S"A CM 75
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Mishna uses euphemism: women who have affair, eats and wipes her mouth and says she has done no wrong.
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KT13: Woman claims she deserves ketuba of 200; Woman disqualified for kehuna; Unknown father; Revealing a wife's history to husband
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Competing claim: because woman is attempting to win money from husband, burden of proof resides on the party who is extracting the claim.
R Huna- in dispute if one party claims with certainty and the other is only a maybe, court compelled to side with certainty.
Rashi- state of mistrust so high that attendants would escort bride and groom to make sure that neither did anything fraudulent...
KT12: Presumption that woman is b'tula; Because Yehuda is not careful about seclusion; Widow's ktuba; Increasing values of ktuba for wealthy
S"A YD 268: child can be converted based on principle of zachin adam sh'lo bfanav. If child rebels reverts to status of non-jew not mumar.
Rashi- if minor converts considered fully Jewish (even vis a vis wine). Implication that hinuch does not apply...
Tosfot- a get (either for marriage or servitude) not considered wholly in favor of party, hence R Meir that can be retracted.
Tosfot- mechanism that allows a kinyan in someone else's favor is via agency. But, only if transaction is wholly in favor.