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The fifteenth perek returns us to the discussion of the tenth perek and the question of what level of testimony is necessary to allow us to permit a woman to marry when her husband has disappeared.
As we have seen, the Sages found a number of ways to be lenient in such cases, both because of their desire to ease the suffering of the widow and because they rely on her to ascertain that her husband is truly dead before she marries another man.
Our daf speaks of a husband lost at sea which prompts a discussion of Yael levy’s comparison of Agunah with American Law, and a fragment from the Cairo Geniza regarding a woman whose husband was embarking on a journey and the t'shuva of the RADVAZ in the 16th century from a woman in Jerusalem whose husband went missing.