Kiddushin Daf 3

The Gemara describes an Esrog as 'darko legadel al kol mayim' it grows from all water. There is a well known idea that the four species represent four different types of Jews that we take and bring together. The Esrog has taste and smell, wisdom and good deeds, the Lulav just taste, the Hadasim just smell, and the Aravos neither. Where did the Esrog get to have both taste and smell? The answer is because the Esrog knows what is the proper way to grow, from all water. The Mishna in Avos teaches us "aizehu chacham, halomed mikol adam' Who is a wise man? One who learns from everyone. Water is compared to Torah and the Esrog is willing to grow from all water, wherever the Esrog can find something to grow from he will take it in and use it for personal growth. We too should strive to be like an Esrog and look for possibilities for growth from everyone we encounter.

Kiddushin Daf 2

The Gemara tells us that the word 'derech' way can be both masculine or feminine depending on what it's referring to. Therefore in the Pasuk 'vihodatam lahem es haderech yailchu bah' the use of the word derech is feminine since it refers to the Torah which is feminine as we see in the verse 'Toras Hashem temimah mishivas nafesh'. The question is why is the Torah a feminine word and not a masculine word. Perhaps the answer is that the Torah requires our effort to attain it. Just like a man has the role to seek out a woman, so too, a man has to seek out the Torah. People expect to wake up one day knowing all there is to know. The Torah needs to be acquired as delineated by Rabbi Meir in Pirkei Avos. There are forty eight ways one must utilize in acquiring Torah it doesn't happen by itself!

Gittin Daf 47

When Reish Lakish died, he left over some saffron to his heirs. He (regretted that he worked more than he needed to, and) applied to himself "they left their wealth to others." We can ask what is so terrible about leaving over an inheritance to our children??? We can learn a valuable lesson from Reish Lakish. We spend much of our time on physical pursuits and neglect our spiritual ones, Reish Lakish is teaching us that the legacy that we leave to our children is not the amount of money they inherit but the lessons on life that we show them by our example. If we spend our days and nights at work and neglect Torah study, every extra cent we earned that we didn't use at the end of our life is wasted time that we could have put to better use.

Gittin Daf 46

When a woman was divorced because she was thought to be an "ailoniss" (a woman who cannot conceive)R' Yehuda says the husband cannot remarry her after the divorce. If the woman marries another and conceives and wants to claim her Kesuba from her first husband, R' Yehuda says we tell her "shtikutech yapheh midiburech" your silence is better than your speaking. This is because if she claims her Kesuba, the first husband might say that he would not have divorced her had he known she could conceive and that would question the validity of the Get and also her children.
This advice of R' Yehuda is something we all should take to heart. Many times our speech brings about more problems for us than gain.

Gittin Daf 45

Shmuel says that if someone owns a slave in Israel and sells the slave to someone outside of Israel, the slave goes free and the buyer does not get his money back. Abaye asks why is the buyer fined? The seller should be fined! Rav Yosef answers if not for the hole (a place to put the stolen goods), the mouse could not steal! Abaye asks if not for the mouse, the hole would not do anything! Rav Yosef answers it is more reasonable to fine the buyer, since the Isur (the slave) is by him. We can learn a very important lesson from the culpability of the mouse-hole in the mouses stealing. We should be very careful and not enable other peoples wrongdoings. If we would not listen to other peoples juicy gossip they would have no one to tell it to.

Gittin Daf 44

The Gemara discusses the penalty for selling a slave to a non jew and says that he must be redeemed even at 100 times his value. The question was raised whether this is an actual amount or an exaggeration. The Gemara concludes that perhaps it is actually even to one hundred times his value, because every day he is by the non jew he is withheld from performing Mitzvos. This should be a lesson to us to recognize the importance of each day and the opportunity it provides to do Mitzvos.

Gittin Daf 43

Rabah bar Rav Huna initially taught that just like a Jew who does a half-Kidushin on a Jewess does not take effect, also Kidushin of a half-Shifchah does not take effect. Rav Chisda objected that you cannot learn from half- Kidushin, in which he did not try to acquire all of her; to (full) Kidushin of a half-Shifchah! Rabah bar Rav Huna consents that he made a mistake and comments "This stumbling under your hand" - one understands words of Torah only after stumbling in them! We can all learn a very important lesson from Rabah bar Rav Huna, we all make mistakes in life but if you use the mistakes you make to do better in the future then even the mistakes that you have made in the past were a good thing!