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Bava Batra 72: Consecrated and Ancestral Lands
Rav Huna on consecrating a field - where he says one does not take possession, in accord with Rabbi Akiva. But then the Gemara lines of Rav Huna's view with…
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Bava Batra 71: What's the Difference between a Sale and a Gift?
A new mishnah! More on what's not included - and what happens when the transfer of ownership is not via a sale, but other means, such as a gift. Plus, what if…
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Bava Batra 70: Fulfilling One's Contract Terms - Or Not
More on the trees -- selling fields and trees (if the tree is grafted or cut). Addressing the parameters of the cases presented, and how expansive the details…
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Bava Batra 69: A Good Idea to Specify the Trees
The Gemara doing what the Gemara does - fleshing out details of the mishnah. For example, the mishnah says "produce that's attached to the ground," and the…
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Bava Batra 68: Bright Lights Big City
Two mishnah. The first describes which items are included in the sale of a city? The daf discusses the definition of one of the items mentioned in the mishnah…
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Bava Batra 67: Sales without Specification
3 mishnayot! Each about selling different properties, where the details of the sale are not specified. First, a courtyard. (if the details are specified, or if…
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Bava Batra 66: Attached to the Ground
Rabbi Eliezer and the Rabbis disagree if a once completed utensil then attached to the ground is considered part of the land. The Gemara discusses some ranging…
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Bava Batra 65: Do You Get the Keys When You Buy the Door?
More on the dispute between Rabbi Akiva and the sages - who, with several cases. For example, what happens when a property is given to two different people…
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Bava Batra 64: When You Need to Fly to Reach Your Property
More on the cistern, and how it's not necessarily included in the sale of the house - again, without specifying its inclusion. But how will the buyer get…
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Bava Batra 63: From the Depths of the Earth to the Height of the Sky
When one stipulates that another should get a portion of one's property - but without stipulating how much property - the Gemara establishes the minimums of…
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Bava Batra 62: Boundary Charts and Graphs
The daf includes visual aids to determine the boundaries of sales that account for division of property, and who owns what where, in relation to the…
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Bava Batra 61: Annexes and Cisterns
A new chapter - with a new mishnah! If you sell a house without specifying that attachments or annexes to the house are included in the sale, then they are not…
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Bava Batra 60: Those Who Mourn Jerusalem Will Merit to See It Rebuilt
2 new mishnayot: The openings one cannot make in one's home that is on a courtyard - especially when facing other homes openings, in contrast to facing the…
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Bava Batra 59: Forcing People to Be Considerate
If one opens a window lower than 4 amot, and the neighbors don't protest, then the one who did so can keep it, as a chazakah. A high window, however, doesn't…
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Bava Batra 58: The Visions of Rabbi Benaya
More on Rabbi Benaya, including a visit to the Cave of Machpelah, and an encounter with Abraham, Sarah, and more... Also, a return to the discussion of…
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Bava Batra 57: The Modesty of Men
A new mishnah! Listing what does work for chazakah (yes, really) and what does not. Also, how residents on a courtyard can protest and prevent activities in…
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Bava Batra 56: Combining Witnesses
How do false witnesses pay back the owner of a field? To prove chazakah does one require one set of witnesses for all three years or different sets of…
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Bava Batra 55: Sea Quill Boundaries
More on "dina de-malchuta" -- including the exilarch, Jewish ruler of the Jews in Babylonia, who quotes the sage, Shmuel, regarding the law of the land and…
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Bava Batra 54: Dina de-Malkhuta Dina (Again)
If a person removes branches from a palm tree for the sake of improving the tree, that might be well enough to acquire the tree. How he removes the branches…
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Bava Batra 53: Adding the Doors to Palaces
How breaching a wall can be sufficient to take possession. Plus, when one moves stones to benefit the land - that can also be a chazakah. Also, one who builds…
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Bava Batra 52: Not All Families Get Along
Neither father nor son can take possession of the other's property via chazakah. The question is in the case that they are separated in some way that means the…
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Bava Batra 51: Hidden Money
Can a wife buy a property from her husband? Is that a valid sale? What is the property is given as a gift? What does the daf mean when it talks about hidden…
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Bava Batra 50: Handling Quasi-Joint Property in Marriage
Ways in which a husband attempting to take ownership of his wife's property won't work. The Gemara continues to address the peculiarities of this dynamic…
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Bava Batra 49: Can a Wife Be forced to Sell Land to Her Husband?
A husband cannot establish a presumption of ownership regarding his wife's property - nor a wife regarding her husband's. Which makes sense given the usual…
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Bava Batra 48: Tavi, Paphi, and the Kinara
Rav Huna talks about a case where "they hung him up" -- to establish the duress under which a transaction might or might not work (Rav Huna says it does, even…
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Bava Batra 47: Thieves and Their Rights to Ownership
More on the craftspeople and the sharecroppers -- where they don't have the rights to the presumption of ownership, but their sons would. Whereas if the…
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Bava Batra 46: The Dry Cleaners' Wrong Clothes
The case of vessels or clothing left with a craftsperson, where the customer gets someone else's property in return - that customer can use the other person's…
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Bava Batra 45: Witnesses vs. Chazakah
The daf discusses a situation where one might bring a non-Jew to the beti din. Rabbah offers a very interesting qualification to the mishnah’s ruling that a…
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Bava Batra 44: An "Apotiki" Lien on Movable Property
More on the baraita, with a shift in explanation - when there's a claimant against movable property, there's no real concern of bias on the part of the…
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Bava Batra 43: Bias!
The complications of one partner testifying about the jointly owned property - which raises concerns of bias, because the relationship, even though they're no…
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Bava Batra 42: When Can Joint Owners Establish a Chazakah?
Consecutive use in place of ownership can establish a chazakah. Which suggests that a sale of the property to another party might actually build on the…
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Bava Batra 41: The Need for a Claim
A new mishnah! On how occupying another's property without an actual claim is not enough to establish a presumption of ownership. But isn't that obvious? The…
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Bava Batra 40: Hidden Gifts
The protesting owner, for whom witnesses came forward - does not need a document to be witnessed, nor does the protestor need to require a document -- can be…
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Bava Batra 39: The Owner's Protest (Details)
Querying before how many people did Rabbi Yochanan require for an owner to protest that he wasn't giving up his property -- a dispute: either 2 or 3. Perhaps…
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Bava Batra 38: Rough Travels
A new mishnah! The presumption of ownership is dependent on where the land that is under discussion is located - specifically, Judea vs. the Galilee. Which…
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Bava Batra 37: Uproot Your Trees and Go!
A complicated case of two people taking possession of the same area, but divided between the trees and the land -- but how can one have the right to trees…
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Bava Batra 36: No Presumption of Ownership for Slaves (or Livestock)
A case of claimants with regard to slaves, for which the Gemara draws a parallel to movable property -- for which a presumption of ownership does not take hold…
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Bava Batra 35: A Sharecropper Is Not an Owner
A case of two claimants to land, claiming an inheritance to that same land -- to which Rav Nachman says, let the stronger one prevail. Shmuel says the judges…
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Bava Batra 34: It's Mine! Or Using Oaths or the Court to Your Own Ends
A case of contested use of produce -- whose is it? As parallel to Rabbi Abba's case, when one snatched a silver ingot, and how that case is compounded by not…
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Bava Batra 33: Back When There Was No Paper Trail
A relative of Rav Idi bar Avin died and left a date tree as an inheritance -- which leads to a dispute with another relative over which is the closer relative…
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Bava Batra 32: A Counterfeit IOU
Our Gemara cites a mishnah from Ketubot regarding not determining status, specifically of a kohen, when there is testimony from only one witness - with caveats…
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Bava Batra 31: Chazakah Testimony
The daf continues to discuss a variety of cases where two litigants make similar claims or two litigants bring contradictory witnesses
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Bava Batra 30: Again, the Burden of Proof
When Rava contradicts himself, and Rav Nachman does too: upon which party to a dispute has the burden to prove his claim? The claimant vs. the temporary person…
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Bava Batra 29: Using the Stuff You Own
Rav Huna's approach regarding 3 years of occupancy, and how prove it -- and how using the property goes to show ownership. Also, working your land to…
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Bava Batra 28: Presumptive Ownership
Symbolic formal acts of acquisition and how they are the "kinyan" for land. The new mishnah addresses how long it takes to attain presumed ownership (with…
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Bava Batra 27: Halfsies
The Gemara discusses a case if a tree that grows half in Israel and half outside of Israel . The second perek ends with two mishnayot about overhanging trees.
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Bava Batra 26: When the Wind Blows the Chaff
In the case of damage by chaff - when winnowing the wheat. Is that the wind's fault or an individual's fault? Plus, another new mishnah: how close to the…
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Bava Batra 25: "Hashem is truly everywhere"
A new mishnah: How far one must distance smelly industries from a town? For example, a tannery. In part, it may depend on which way the wind blows. Which leads…
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Bava Batea 24: Are Trees Beautiful?
Abaye and Rava continue to discuss majority vs. proximity. Two mishnahs discuss distances needed with trees and granaries.
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Bava Batra 23: Bye Bye Birdie
Two mishnahs discussing issues around dvoecotes. The Gemara on the second mishnah wonders if majority or proximity are most important when determining where a…
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Bava Batra 22: Rav Adda bar Abba
A strange story about Rav Adda bar Abba and which sage was responsible for his death. Two new mishnahs describing the requires distances between certain…
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Bava Batra 21: Jewish Education
The daf explains how the Jewish education system started. Can similar businesses be opened next to each other?
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Bava Batra 20: Tumah Blockers
A barita describes different types of tumah blockers. Plus two new mishnahs
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Bava Batra 19: And/Or
The daf closely reads the mishnah and wonders if the clause about lime is an alternative to distancing or an additional requirement for preventing a pit from…
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Bava Batra 18: The Refutation of Rava
The daf continues to explore the disagreement between Abaye and Rava this time focusing on refuting Rava’s position. The end if the daf discusses if there is a…
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Bava Batra 17: Keep Your Distance
The Gemara lists those who were not subject to the evil inclination and those who were not subject to the Angel of Death. Also, chapter 2, with a new mishnah…
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Bava Batra 16: Who Is the Satan?
More on Job. Including the discussion between God and the Satan that led to Job's trouble. Plus the Satan's suffering in keeping Job alive. And who is the…
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Bava Batra 15: Dead Men Can't Tell Tales
More on the authors of various books, including how Joshua wrote his own book and also the last 8 verses of Deuteronomy. Unless Moses himself wrote them. But…
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Bava Batra 14: Who Wrote the Bible
A famous daf about the orders of the book of the Torah and who authored them.
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Bava Batra 13: A Bathhouse, an Olive Press, and Sacred Scrolls
Cases of dividing property in inequitable ways - for example, when a father leaves a bath house or an olive press to his sons, one of whom is wealthy and one…