Version 1: The first half of the second chapter of Tractate Kiddushin focuses on the various legal aspects of marriage, including the use of agents and conditional marriages. Students prepare the applicable Talmudic texts as well as the major halachic opinions of the rishonim and acharonim, and the opinions of various other commentaries and decisors. The instructor guides students in understanding the issues raised and assists them to deduce the crux of these issues. Topics include: getting married using an agent; redivision of assets using a court appointed trustee; evaluation of properties by the courts; misappropriation of property by a guardian; jurisdiction of a father over his daughter; sale of a Jewish maidservant; return of monies insufficient to aggregate to one marriage agreement; the sale of loans of indebtedness; the writing of legal documents; the validity of unexpressed intentions; kiddushin where cohabitation is illegal. NOTE: This tractate is studied by all students in a given trimester. While the scope of instruction is the same, the depth of study depends upon what level the student is in. Version 2: Topics are the same as the earlier version. Only one credit recommendation level is now in effect.