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The rabbis wish to discuss inheritance guidelines as they were set out in yesterday's daf. Who is thought to be the first to inherit and why? What is meant by the word "family" in some of our texts? Why are wives not the first inheritors? When do women inherit and why? The rabbis provide proofs both through their texts and through their lines of questioning for the logic of the guidelines in our Mishna.
We explore the issue of matrilineal inheritance.