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When someone makes a gift from his deathbed, no formal act of acquisition is necessary for the gift to be acquired by its recipient. Plus, a discussion of the biblical sources of deathbed gifts - Hezekiah or Achitophel, with Achitophel's 3 points of advice for his children. Also, let's talk about the weather - and its implications for crops, as they follow from the Jewish holidays. Where the smoke from the Temple blowing one direction or another carried with it predictions about the upcoming season.
Another deathbed case - if one signs away all of his property, without reserving anything for himself in case he would recover, what happens if he seems to be rethinking his decision -- if he then dies? If he recovers? Plus, more on the cases where the person on his deathbed recovers, and the...
Published 11/20/24
A new mishnah! With more on the bridal gifts -- she received gifts after kiddushin, and before nisuin, so they were sent to her father's house, because she hadn't yet been fully married and moved to her husband's house. But then the gifts are not collected in the event that they never reach...
Published 11/18/24