A very brief review of today’s daf:
A new Mishna teaches us that a betrothed groom who gives even 10,000 dinars to his
father-in-law does not receive the gift back if the marriage is not
effected. No gifts are returned at all (unless
the bride brings them to her betrothed’s home to be used there, briefly).
The rabbis discuss this Mishna by suggesting relatively wild
circumstances where we might think that gifts should be collected back by the
giver.
We learn that there are minor differences in the halacha
around returning gifts between gifts that can be consumed and gifts that cannot
be consumed.
Before our daf ends, we learn a second new Mishna:
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When a man gives his land away on his death bed and he in fact
survives, those gifts are only returned if he left no land for himself. In such a case, it is clear that his wishes
were to be effected only if he were to die.
The Gemara takes issue with this - how might we assume a
person’s intentions? Ever?
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