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Yevamos Chart #32

Yevamos Daf 114b-116b

BELIEVING A WOMAN WHO TESTIFIES THAT HER HUSBAND DIED
  (A)
SHE SAYS ONLY THAT HE DIED
(B)
SHE SAYS THAT HE DIED "ON HIS BED" (8)
(C)
SHE SAYS THAT "HE DIED AND I BURIED HIM"
1) HE DIED AT THE HANDS OF ROBBERS She is believed(1) She is believed She is believed
2) HE DIED IN A PLAGUE Machlokes(2) She is believed She is believed
3) HE DIED IN WAR
(or in an avalanch, or in an attack of snakes)
She is not believed She is believed(3) She is believed(4)
4) HE DIED IN A STARVATION She is not believed She is not believed(3) She is believed
5) HE DIED, AND THERE HAD BEEN A QUARREL BETWEEN THEM(5) She is not believed(6) Machlokes(7) Machlokes(7)
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FOOTNOTES:
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(1) She is believed because she is not afraid that the robbers will kill her, and thus she stays to witness whether her husband really died or not (Rashi 114a, DH Hasam).
(2) Daf 114b.
(3) See Insights to 114b, why she is believed.
(4) According to the Rambam, she is not believed (see Hagahos ha'Gra on 114b and our Insights there).
(5) A "quarrel" is defined by the Gemara as any situation in which the wife exclaims to her husband, "You divorced me!" when he really did not.
(6) In a case where *she* initiated the quarrel, the Amora'im dispute whether she is believed or not (see Tosfos 116b, DH Ika Beinaihu, and Insights to the Daf there).
(7) It is a Machlokes Amora'im on 116b whether we only suspect her of lying when there is a quarrel between them, or whether we also suspect that she will say that he died based on surmise and on unfounded assumptions ("b'd'Dami"); see Insights to Daf 116b, though, where we point out that not all Rishonim accept that there is a Machlokes on this point.
(8) See Insights to Daf 114b for the definition of "on his bed."


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