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Bava Batra 12: Rabbi Prophets
The daf discusses the end of prophecy and that prophecy was replaced by the Rabbis but also suggests that maybe the Rabbis are prophets too. Rabbi Yochanon…
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Bava Batra 11: When You Can't Divide and Conquer
A beraita on Munbaz the king, who depleted his treasures that had been filled and protected by previous generations. Plus, Who's Who on this personality. Also…
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Bava Batra 10: Rabbit Chanina ben Tryadon’s Tzedakah
The daf continues to teach about the importance of tzedakah and its special relationship to the Jewish people. A barita mentions the tzedakah that was…
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Bava Batra 9: Tzedakah
The daf continues to explain about the right way to perform the mitzvah of tzedakah but its discussion is interrupted by an interesting story about Rav Sheshet.
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Bava Batra 8: Rabbinic Exemptions
The daf discusses why rabbis do not need to contribute to public works and to illustrate their point a story is about Rebbi and his distribution if food during…
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Bava Batra 7: Why Elijah Stopped Visiting
4 cases of property disputes, where one party wants to build and the other wants to prevent the building. Also, a new mishnah - and the way people can compel…
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Bava Batra 6: Talmudic Building Code - Take 2
Rav Huna and Rav Yosef disagree over different types of chazakah of usage. Abaye teaches how to built houses next to a public domain and still maintain privacy.
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Bava Batra 5: Ravina vs. Ronya
The case of an inner all and an outer wall - can one party induce the other the participate in payment for fencing just by virtue of putting them up - a court…
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Bava Batra 4: The Last Hasmonean, Preserved in Honey
How Herod became king, how Bava ben Buta advised him, and how even Herod's evil had an after-the-fact silver lining of Herod's beautiful Temple. Plus, what it…
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Bava Batra 3: Talmudic Building Code
The daf explains the terms gvil and gazit and what they mean halakhically. What’s an amah traksin and did it exist in the second Temple. Rav Chisda explains…
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Bava Batra 2: A Partition or a Division
A new Masechet! What happens if two people jointly own a courtyard and one if them wants a wall built? A lengthy discussion on the daf if sight can cause…
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Bava Metzia 119: Roots and Leaves
A last mishnah! On divided properties, including gardens, when one is above the other - who owns the produce? Unusually, the mishnah explains the rationale of…
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Bava Metzia 118: Public Damages
The daf opens with mishnah that discussed when a change in wages is allowed. A second mishnah lists different types of items that can damage a Reshut HaRabim…
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Bava Metzia 117: I Did Not Sign Up for This
More on the upstairs/downstairs neighbors, who share maintenance and the like. Including issues of when a tenant would move in with the landlord (or in place…
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Bava Metzia 116: Upstairs Downstairs
The daf finishes the ninth chapter of Bava Metzeia with a disagreement between Abaye and Rava about a slaughtering knife. The tenth chapter discusses…
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Bava Metzia 115: The Milestone
The daf contains two mishnahs which contain halakhot about securities and when one may not take a security
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Bava Metzia 114: A Graveyard visit with Eliyahu
Rabah bar Avuha meets Eliyahu and asks three questions. The daf returns to its discussion of collateral and almost seems to undermine the concept.
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Bava Metzia 113: One Bed Two Bed
When and how can a lender collect a security? The daf also contains a very strange baraita about what a lender must leave a borrower.
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Bava Metzia 112: Craftspeople Deserve Their Wages
If one uses a shopkeeper or a money changer to hold on to a worker's wages - can he be paid this way, or can he go back to the employer to be paid directly? Of…
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Bava Metzia 111: Oshek and Gezel
If wages are withheld is it oshek or gezel? Does the prohibition against withholding wages also apply to animals and keilim?
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Bava Metzia 110: Payday
The daf looks at the case of an ambiguous document and how do is payment determined. A new mishnah begins a discussion on the timely payment of employees
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Bava Metzia 109: Down By the Sycamore Tree
Is renter allowed to cut the branches of trees on a field he is renting? If a farmer wants to go to Eretz Yisroel and leave his rental earlier should he be…
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Bava Metzia 108: Bar Meitzra
Why did Rabbah bar bar Chana curse Rabbah bar Rav Nachman? The daf cites the biblical source for bar meitzra and explains why it is important.
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Bava Metiza 107: How Do You Take Your Morning Bread?
The daf mentions that it is an Ein HaRah to have someone stand near your field and look at your crops. The many benefits of eating bread in the morning are…
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Bava Metzia 106: Crop Failures and Their Many Consequences
Natural calamities... and how years with no rain (and therefore no produce) were characterized as "Elijah's years." Plus, calculating produce per the years of…
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Bava Metzia 105: Little House on the Prairie and Unsuccessful Crops
A new mishnah - does weeding a field have impact on the transaction of the farmer (vs. landowner). Also, what does a measure of one's load have to do with…
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Bava Metzia 104: Lashon Hedyot
A “meta” daf. Rav Pappa shares what types of farmers the mishnayot on the previous daf discuss. The daf describes situations where lashon hedyot - text that…
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Bava Metzia 103: Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers
The 8th perek finishes with a discussion about replacing a rented house that fell. The ninth perek discussed the laws of sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
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Bava Metzia 102: Shiluach HaKan
Who takes the mezuzot in a rented property? The daf discusses the mitzvah of sending a mother bird away to collect her eggs in a rented property.
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Bava Metzia 101: Uprooted Trees and Evicted Homes
The daf discusses the ownership of a tree that is uprooted and lands on someone else’s property. How much notice must be given before evicting a tenant?
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Bava Metzia 100: Oath-taking to Establish a Sale (except for slaves)
The laws of transactions between buyers and sellers, in parallel to borrowers and lenders. With the example of a pregnant cow that was traded for a donkey…
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Bava Metzia 99: 50 Dates Minus 1
Rav discusses a case when a slave brings the borrowed object to the borrower and how does that affect the borrower’s liability. If a stolen item can have…
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Bava Metzia 98: Liable for a Partial Admission
If one person says to another - you owe me 100 dinar, and the other says, I only owe you 50, I don't know ow about the other half - which means he can't swear…
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Bava Metzia 97: When the Mice Unite against a Cat
Stories! Unexpected work related harm - gender dynamics and the unlikelihood of mice going after a cat. That is, circumstances of death that we don't expect…
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Bava Metzia 96: Rami Bar Chama Pushes the Halakhic Boundries
Rana bar Chama shares a series of astounding questions exploring when a borrower may or may not be liable. The response to the questions may be even more…
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Bava Metzia 95: The Borrower
How do we derive the liability of a borrower for theft and loss? (Verses!) But the obligation to pay comes from logic. But Rav Hamnuna understands the…
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Bava Metzia 94: Stipulations on the Torah's Conditions
Conditions, as set by the guardians - which counters the inherent conditions for each of them, as established in the Torah. Plus, exemptions that allow…
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Bava Metzia 93: The Shomers
Three mishnahs on this daf which discuss different laws about Shomrim
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Bava Metzia 92: The Cost of a Cucumber
A new mishnah: the rights of the worker to eat - but what if the value of the produce he eats is more than his wages? It's a machloket. Plus, fine-tuning the…
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Bava Metzia 91: The Problem of Dairy Bread
More on muzzling... Can a court enforce a monetary requirement on one who didn't muzzle when it was needed? What other costs come along with the muzzling or…
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Bava Metzia 90: Muzzle It!
Trampling grain to remove the outer skin, and other threshing... Plus, the issue of muzzling animals, and how that's complicated by issues of terumah, ma'aser…
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Bava Metzia 89: How Do You Like Your Grapes?
The daf contains a series of baritot expounding the work “B’Disho” in order to teach a variety of different halachot. Then a discussion if a worker is allowed…
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Bava Metzia 88: When Ma’aser begins
The daf discusses when does the obligation to tithe begin. Also what produce are animals allowed to eat.
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Bava Metzia 87: Abraham and Sarah, in Midrash
This daf is the (or a) talmudic source for several of prominent midrashim about the patriarch Abraham and matriarch Sarah. Also, back to halakhah - dealing…
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Bava Metzia 86: Letters from the Sky
The daf shares the story of Rabbah bar Nachmani and his mysterious death. The Genara tries to understand why Rabbi Yochanom ben Matya uses the image of the…
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Bava Metzia 85: How Great Was Rabbi Hiyya!
More aggadah - the suffering of R. Elazar, and not bring buried properly. With Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi's reaction, and his own suffering. Plus, other experiences…
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Bava Metzia 84: Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish
The daf shares the poignant story of Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish: hiw they met and ultimately how they both die because of slight. The daf also shares…
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Bava Metzia 83: Caring for the Workers
Closing chapter 6, starting chapter 7. First, 6: If one is a witness, one must come forward to give proof, and avoid litigants needing to take an oath. This…
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Bava Metzia 82: Watching Lost Objects
The daf poses a question about a person who finds a lost object and is the finder considered to be an unpaid shomer or a paid shomer. A new mishnah dealing…
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Bava Metzia 81: Put It Down!
A dilemma - when one is exempt from the liability of a borrower, does that mean he has no liability or just as one who is paid to watch over it. Plus, why a…
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Bava Metzia 80: Rental Agreements Gone Wrong
3 mishnayot! 1 - If one rents a cow to plow a mountain, but plows in a valley... how does that difference (and the reverse) make a difference in terms of…
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Bava Metzia 79: Rent-a-Donkey (or a Boat)
If a rented donkey dies midway through the journey, the renter pays a partial fee, and complains about the experience. But what if that donkey can be replaced?…
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Bava Metzia 78: River Deep Mountain High
A new mishnah discusses what happens when something to a rented animal and who is responsible for unavoidable injuries. The gemara tries to determine if the…
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Bava Metzia 77: Labor Law
Rava's rulings in employment, in terms of setting norms, and what goes beyond all reasonable expectations. Plus, how people were trained not to renege on a…
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Bava Metzia 76: A Nes Nistar daf 76 on Israel’s 76 birthday!
The daf begins the sixth perek which discusses issues that may come up between an employer and worker. Plus Rav Nachmun tries to create a halakhic parallel…
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Bava Metzia 75: The Halacha of Hillel
The last daf of the fifth perek wraps up the discussion of interest with two final mishnahs. The Genara after the first mishnah shares an opinion if Hillel…
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Bava Metzia 74: Grapes, Olives, and Clumps of Clay
Contracting for produce in advance - even when the harvest or processing isn't finished, but the raw goods are already in the offing, and some number of steps…
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Bava Metzia 73: Placing Your Wine Orders Early
Surcharges for sharecroppers - is that interest or not? Plus, real cases vs. theoretical ones. And the details of how those real cases are manifest.
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Bava Metzia 72: Forward Contracting
The daf asks the question what happens if a non-Jew converts and was charged interest by a Jew - can the interest still be collected. A new mishnah discussed…
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Bava Metzia 71: When Lending with Interest Seems OK, Maybe
Some reflections by the sages on how bad it is to lend with interest - where the mishnah seemed to allow it after all, at least with regard to non-Jews. The…