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Does oines (circumstances beyond one's control) invalidate a conditional get? The shiur develops the Gemara (גמרא)'s analysis of whether someone who dies before fulfilling his condition creates a valid get. A key insight emerges about the relationship between oines and yibum obligations.
This shiur analyzes a complex sugya in Kesubos 2b dealing with the fundamental question of oines b'gittin - whether circumstances beyond one's control (oines) can invalidate a conditional get. The Gemara (גמרא) discusses a case where someone gives his wife a get conditional on his return within twelve months, but he dies before that time expires. Rashi (רש"י) and Tosafot present different approaches to understanding why death would not invalidate the get despite being the ultimate oines. Rashi explains that the conditional get was written specifically to free the wife from yibum obligations - therefore, when the husband dies (creating a yibum situation), he would not want to invoke oines since that would defeat the very purpose of the get. The husband anticipated this scenario and implicitly waived his right to claim oines in cases of death.
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Kesubos 2b
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