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Bava Batra 132: A Woman Receives Property, Apparently with Limits
A case where a husband gives his wife the entirety of his property as a gift, not an inheritance, where her ketubah is fundamentally folded into the sum total…
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Bava Batra 131: Appointing an Administrator for One's Estate
What happens when a healthy person wants to allocate his property as gifts? In contrast to the cases we've seen to this point, which have been deathbed…
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Bava Batra 130: You Can Only Judge the Case before You
More on stipulations of inheritance vs. those of gift-giving. What if the stipulation is about someone who is suitable to be inheriting in any case? Also, a…
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Bava Batra 129: Gifting Inheritance
How to handle inheritance - with oral designation as a gift, and not as "inheritance." Including the question of when one must stipulate that a gift is indeed…
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Bava Batra 128: Rabbi Abba's 7 Inquiries
This daf presents 7 queries about some quirky cases that were sent by Rabbi Abba to Rav Yosef Bar Chama [Who's Who: Rav Yosef bar Chama and also Rabbi Abba, in…
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Bava Batra 127: When Is a Male Not Male? When Is a First-born Not First-Born?
How the laws pertaining to a "Tumtum" affect his ability to inherit the double portion. This status has all kinds of implications to other areas of halakhah…
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Bava Batra 126: Double Portion Tension
More on the double portion inherited by the first-born. What happens if the first-born renounces the extra part of his double portion, so that he ends up with…
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Bava Batra 125: The Case of the Great-Grandmother
Different views from the sages in Nehardea, in the land of Israel, and elsewhere - with the dispute over whether the payment of a debtor returning the loan of…
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Bava Batra 124: When the First-born Does Not Get a Double Portion
A beraita (Tosefta) presents the idea of enhancement to the property that takes place after the death of the father - for which the first-born does not get the…
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Bava Batra 123: The Double Portion
On the double-portion for the first-born. And the various ways that can play out. Plus, going back to the biblical treatment of the double portions. Also, a…
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Bava Batra 122: Dividing the Land
How DID the divide the land of Israel in the time of Joshua? Was it divided according to tribe? Or per capita? (We recommend googling for a map) Also, a new…
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Bava Batra 121: Tu B'Av: The Maidens and More
A side-step away from the laws of inheritance, to address the nature of the 15th of Av and also Yom Kippur. Which of course leads back to the daughters of…
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Bava Batra 120: A Miracle for Yocheved
Starting with some aggadah - a miracle that was done for the daughters of Tzlofchad that parallels the miracle done for Yocheved: bearing children "older," but…
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Bava Batra 119: What Moshe Didn't Know
More Tzlofchad, his inheritance (including a double portion), and his daughters. Plus, Shimon HaShikmoni weighs in to say that Moses always knew the daughters…
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Bava Batra 118: The Righteous Shall Inherit the Land
Presenting several of the six questions on how the land was divided when the Children of Israel came to the land of Israel -- from Rav Pappa to Abaye. Also, as…
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Bava Batra 117: Biblical Portions
Beginning with a new mishnah on the previous daf! On the daughters of Tzlofchad and their inheritance of their father's portion of the land of Israel. The…
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Bava Batra 116: Student Heirs
More on inheritance - with a harsh pronouncement: a man who dies without sons is reflecting God's wrath. Plus, the story of R. Yochanan, who focused on the…
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Bava Batra 115: Prioritizing Sons - and Rabbinic Halakhah
A new mishnah! On the order of inheritance, including the portion each receives (or doesn't) -- prioritizing sons over daughters, not surprisingly (and the…
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Bava Batra 114: Limiting a Son's Maternal Inheritance
When can the respective parties renege on a formal act of acquisition (kinyan)? Of course, it's a machloket -- whether they can walk it back for as long as…
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Bava Batra 113: Making Sense of Inheritance Genealogies
How a husband has the right to inherit from his wife. Plus, identifying the players of the biblical genealogies of yesterday's daf. Also, a discussion of…
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Bava Batra 112: Inheriting within the Tribe
When interpreting a verse from genealogies in the Book of Chronicles becomes an essential point to the laws of inheritance -- when the son, Yair, had cities…
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Bava Batra 111: The Daughters Won't Inherit the Earth
With many topics on this daf… the case of a son and a daughter inheriting their mother's estate, with the debate over the son's precedence. With a lot of…
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Bava Batra 110: Biblical Heiresses
A discourse on the families in the Torah -- including the children of Aaron, with regard to establishing the laws of inheritance. Also, back to halakhah -…
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Bava Batra 109: Inheritance Hierarchy
A person's son is considered to be his primary son, and not even the deceased's father, but the father may precede the deceased's daughter. Which raises the…
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Bava Batra 108: Inheriting the Land: We Don't Start with Calamity
A new chapter! With an introduction to the basis of the laws of inheritance. Including the rules of the first-born, and referring to the daughters of…
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Bava Batra 107: "So Animals Can't Jump Over the Fence": Dividing Property
A case of a debtor coming to collect a deceased father's debt from one of two brothers who had divided their father's estate: is the brother who covered the…
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Bava Batra 106: Inheritance by Lottery
A new mishnah! On the sale of a field with demarcations of the property, where the buyer can hold the seller to those specifications, with a one-sixth margin…
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Bava Batra 105: How to Pay for a Leap Month of Rent
A new mishnah! (from 104) With a case of contradictory measurements (specific and approximate), which is a complication for an effective sale - the one…
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Bava Batra 104: To the Seller's Advantage
Interactions between buyer and seller - when a seller gives the buyer and advantage, for the portion of land being sold. In whose favor are the adjustments for…
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Bava Batra 103: Crevices and Rocks
Beginning a new chapter - with a new mishnah. Namely, if one sells a field that has crevices or rocks of 10 handbreadths of depth or height, respectively -…
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Bava Batra 102: A Quick Burial
More on the spacing of found buried bodies - and when the presumption is that you have found an ancient burial ground, based on the spacing (depending on the…
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Bava Batra 101: Catacombs
Beginning with a mishnah on 100 -- about the structure of catacombs: family burial places carved into the recesses of a wall, and the specifics of the…
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Bava Batra 100: The Ceremony on the Cemetery Road
More on the definitions of a thoroughfare -- specifically, a private path. Is it measured in cubits or by use? Note: "Dayanei Golah" - the judges of the…
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Bava Batra 99: The Keruvim
All you want to know about the cherubim/keruvim, and then some (because of there's dispute). What is their wingspan? What are their positions? Which way are…
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Bava Batra 98: The Customer Isn't Always Right
2 mishnayot! First, wine that goes sour is not the seller's responsibility, unless he knew it would sour. Plus other cases where it turns out that the seller…
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Bava Batra 97: Consecrations and Kiddush
Wine that is produced by pouring water over leaves (shemarim) that are terumah - the first 2 pourings are considered terumah still, but by the third, it loses…
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Bava Batra 96: Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine... Vinegar
More on wine that may have become vinegar - this case, in a barrel from which terumot and ma'aserot may have been taken. Does the barrel turn from the top or…
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Bava Batra 95: Wine into Vinegar
A seller of wine selling a cellar of wine - where the difference between a barrel vs. the stock carries real implications for the shift from wine to vinegar…
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Bava Batra 94: A Quarter Kav of Dirt
A new mishnah discusses how much dirt can be sold with different types of produce. Rav Huna shares a halacha about happens if the buyer finds more than a…
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Bava Batra 93: The Seller's Obligation in Making the Sale
More on the dispute between Rav and Shmuel - on whether the seller owes the buyer the value of the error in the event that the merchandise sold was not as it…
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Bava Batra 92: Let the Buyer Beware (Or Not?)
Beginning chapter 6 - with a new mishnah. One who sells produce that is sometimes used for eating and sometimes for planting -- what happens if the buyer…
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Bava Batra 91: Theological Holes in the Story of Ruth
In the middle of 7 beraitot -- the last of which addresses increases to the cost of wheat, and then the Gemara turns to Megillat Ruth. Specifically, can you…
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Bava Batra 90: Hoarders, Market Demand, and Food Scarcity
A given town has limits on how much it can increase the size of its measures. If the rationale is to avoid inflation, then why increase at all? Perhaps it's a…
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Bava Batra 89: Criminal Minds - and the Torah Scholars Who Know Them
Further discussion of the laws that pertain weights and measures, with a mnemonic to help them remember 11 beraitot, all pertaining to weights and measures…
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Bava Batra 88: Honest Shopkeepers
A new mishnah! (the last of the chapter) -- on the upkeep of weights and measures. That is, wiping them clean, specifically those that are used for wet goods…
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Bava Batra 87: A Child Breaks an Oil Flask and the Storekeeper Is Liable (Maybe)
2 mishnayot! First: The case of someone who sells food and drink -- that is, oil and wine -- and the price rises or falls, and the seller or the buyer wants to…
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Bava Batra 86: Kinyan Meshicha
The daf describes how kinyan meshicha works and questions if it an alternative to hagbaha or only done when hagbaha cannot be performed
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Bava Batra 85: The Point of No Reneging
A baraita with the 4 different methods by which a buyer can acquire merchandise -- for example, dry good. That is, until the measuring cup (as it were) is…
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Bava Batra 84: All the Colors of the Sun
The daf has a discussion about the color of the sun based off the mishnah’s halacha about white and red wheat. A new mishnah discusses the sale of fruit and…
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Bava Batra 83: The Right to Renege
A series of (fun) questions about the trees, the land, and the purchasing thereof. Including details of the distances between the trees and the implications of…
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Bava Batra 82: Branches, Roots, and the Palm Tree's Smooth Trunk
When one owns trees in the middle of another's property, how is growth on the tree ascribed to either owner (new branches, new roots)? What if there's water…
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Bava Batra 81: This Land Is Your Land
The daf discussed the sale if tree, if the land is included and does the owner bring bikkurim form these trees. How to bring bikkurim is a machloket between…
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Bava Batra 80: Honey and Honeycomb
A new mishnah! If you buy the "fruits" of a dovecoat, or of a beehive, or even honeycomb, then the "first fruits" of each of them need to be left for the…
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Bava Batra 79: Consecration
A mishnah in Meila discusses if a consecrated item includes its contents and how it relates to a machloket between Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Yosi. Can you sell a…
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Bava Batra 78: Selling Donkeys
Two new mishnayot! First - When it comes to selling a donkey, what gear, if any, is included as a default? The answer may depend on whether donkeys were…
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Bava Batra 77: If You Buy the Wagon, Do You Buy the Mules?
Indebtedness, and how transfer happens. Plus, when and how one can rescind with regard to the given transaction. Also, how movable property is acquired…
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Bava Batra 76: The Largest Movable Object That Is Not Alive
How do you acquire a boat? It's a debate between Rav and Shmuel, even after they try to draw the parallel to the acquisition of a large animal and the…
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Bava Batra 75: The Lights of the Leviathan and Jerusalem
More on the Leviathan. Among other details, the Leviathan can boil the water of the ocean. Also, it's very smelly. Also, -- all of which details have…
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Bava Batra 74: The Leviathan and the Question of Magic
More of the dramatic, fantastical, fascinating passages. Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua traveled by ship - and they see a great light in the sea, which opens…
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Bava Batra 73: The Esoteric Tales of a Jewish 'Sinbad'
Chapter 5! A new mishnah -- with a shift to a discussion of movable property, and what is included in their sales. For example, what is included in the sale of…