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Bava Batra 160: Securing Your Land for the Babylonian Exile

Chapter 10! A new mishnah - on the way documents are formally signed the details of their contracts within confirmed. With 2 kinds of documents - "regular" and "tied" - the signatures need to be as required for the details of the document itself to be valid. Plus, the need for 2 witnesses vs. 3 witnesses. Also, a discussion (by Jeremiah) of the Babylonian siege of the destruction of Jerusalem (the first time), God promises the return to the land - and the encouragement is buying land with documents so they have proof of purchase when they come back. These source verses are in the Prophets…

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