Major topics include Sfeik sfeikah, a widow’s marriage, Ezra’s takanah, delays due to illness, niddah, a forced get, conditions of gittin, oness, tznuos and prutzos, marriage on Shabbos, the takanah of shakdu, better to be killed than transgress, karka olam, a time of shmad, prutzos and Cohanos, laws of mourning, deaths of various relatives, gollel and dofek, misasek, and destructive acts. Topics and sources may vary. Methods of instruction include lecture, discussion and textual preparations. Prerequisite: Three previous Talmud courses, basic familiarity with the topics dealt with in the Tractate.