Sotah 27 - Yom HaZikaron - April 25, 4 Iyar

Today’s daf is dedicated to the memory of the fallen soldiers that were killed protecting the State of Israel and in memory of those that were killed in terrorist attacks and died by Kiddush Hashem.  Today's daf is sponsored by Jeanne Yael Klempner in loving memory of her father, Michael Cohen, Elimelech HaCohen ben Shlomo v'Malka, who passed away a month ago on the 4th of Nissan. "Dad, thank you for inspiring my love of learning Torah. I wish I'd been able to share my daf yomi journey with you over the last few difficult years of your life, but I take comfort in knowing you'd be proud of it." Today's daf is sponsored by Judy Schwartz in loving memory of her nephew Larry Gerber, Lipa Chaim ben Yisrael Hakohen z"l, on his shloshim. "He was a wonderful, generous man who did much good for the world, passed away too young, and will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him." Is it worse to marry a woman rumored to have committed adultery or the daughter of that woman? Is there an assumption that the daughter of such a woman is likely conceived from the husband or not? What is the basis of the debate between Rabbi Yosi and the rabbis about whether a husband can have his wife drink the sotah water if the court did the kinui in a case where he was temporarily incapacitated? The words 'wife' and 'husband' are juxtaposed in the verse and this is used to teach that the criteria for men are the same as for women and vice-versa. What laws are derived from this juxtaposition? The fifth chapter begins by deriving from a verse that just as the woman who committed adultery is killed by the sotah water, the man who had relations with her dies as well in the same manner. And just as she is forbidden to her husband, she is forbidden to the man under suspicion as well. There are two different manners in which this can be derived from the text - one by Rabbi Akiva and the other by Rabbi Yehoshua. The Mishna continues to list various other drashot by Rabbi Akiva and one by Rabbi Yehoshua ben Horkanus. The topics vary from an impure item of a second-degree being able to pass on impurity to create a third-degree of impurity, the area around the Levite cities, how the Jews sang with Moshe at the splitting of the Red Sea, and did Iyov worship God out of love or fear.