Series: Daily Shiur

Venue: YU Wilf Campus YU Wilf Campus

Gemara:

Ketuvot 

Collections: Rabbi Feldman Kesubos 2014

Description

-- The case: A dispute over the ketubah, whether she was a betulah or not when they married and therefore she is owed 200 or 100. -- Is this a classic case of modeh b'miktzas and therefore he can d'oraisa swear that he only owes 100, and pay that amount? -- Rambam says it is, Raavad disagrees, Rosh on the gemara takes this latter position as well. -- The solution of the Maggid Mishnah. -- Understanding the nature of the debt created by ketubah in light of Rav Chaim Shmulevitz's answer the Raavad's critique of the Rambam.