Kiddushin

Harry Fox considers acquisition by money the latest form of marriage and based on the fact that earlier texts use kiddushin formulae and that the first sugyah (Talmudic topic) in Tractate Kiddushin, which is savoraic, fails to find any reasonable biblical antecedent.

Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Not until I read the richly detailed Jerusalem Maiden did I realize that the Talmud, Kiddushin decrees: "Happy the man whose children are boys and woe to him if they are girls."

Dora Levy Mossanen: A Jerusalem Woman's Tale of Faith and Art Dora Levy Mossanen 2011

Not until I read the richly detailed Jerusalem Maiden did I realize that the Talmud, Kiddushin decrees: "Happy the man whose children are boys and woe to him if they are girls."

Dora Levy Mossanen: A Jerusalem Woman's Tale of Faith and Art Dora Levy Mossanen 2011

Perhaps that's why, according to the sages of the Talmud Kiddushin 31 and in so many other places, honoring and revering our parents is defined in dozens of "little" acts.

Brad Hirschfield: Celebrate Mother's Day ... Biblically Brad Hirschfield 2011

Perhaps that's why, according to the sages of the Talmud Kiddushin 31 and in so many other places, honoring and revering our parents is defined in dozens of "little" acts.

Brad Hirschfield: Celebrate Mother's Day ... Biblically Brad Hirschfield 2011

Not until I read the richly detailed Jerusalem Maiden did I realize that the Talmud, Kiddushin decrees: "Happy the man whose children are boys and woe to him if they are girls."

Dora Levy Mossanen: A Jerusalem Woman's Tale of Faith and Art Dora Levy Mossanen 2011

In Kiddushin 32a, Rabbi Eliezer deals with the issue of how a son honors a senile father who is about to throw his life savings into the sea in front of the entire community.

Larry Gellman: The 11th Commandment -- Thou Shalt Support Israel 2010

Thus, women were given greater understanding (BT Niddah 45b); women are light minded (BT Kiddushin 80b).

Nature of Women. 2009

In the words of the Mishnah, “And she acquires herself in two ways … through divorce or through death of the husband” (Mishnah, Kiddushin 1: 1).

Marriage. 2009

Several sweeping statements address the general tendencies of women to be compassionate (BT Megillah 14b), holy and pure (Sifrei, Deuteronomy, Ki Tezei), talkative (BT Kiddushin 49b), and given to tears (BT Bava Mezia 59a).

Nature of Women. 2009