Shavuot I

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This course in Advanced Talmud will explore the institution of Shavuot in cases of monetary conflict absent conclusive evidence. The respective categories of Biblical and rabbinic Shavuot will be defined and compared to one another. Under what circumstances must a shevuah be taken by a litigant on a Torah level, and when did the rabbis institute a shevuah on the rabbinic plane? Particular attention will be paid to the defining halakhic discrepancies between Biblical Shavuot and rabbinic Shavuot. Moreover, the nature and function of a shevuah taken in beit din will be analyzed in light of these respective halakhic parameters.