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Bava Metzia 70: Charging Interest Non-Jews
How being an orphan (minor) changes the terms of the prohibition against interest. Also, a new mishnah: fixed costs on what becomes a loan (via caring for an…
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Bava Metzia 69: Covering Costs
More on the partnerships of yesterday's daf, but in story form. Plus, a new mishnah on appraising animals and their progeny, and when adding sums to the costs…
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Bava Metzia 68: Iska
Rav Ashi shares a halacha about pledged property from the sages of Mechoza and explains the root of the word mishkanta. A new mishnah introduces iska and how…
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Bava Metzia 67: The Dust of Interest
A case where a woman instructs a man to go buy property from her relatives on her behalf, which gives rise to the relative's question whether he'll be able to…
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Bava Metzia 66: Asmachta
The daf discusses different scenarios where a states condition may or may not be binding. The terms asmachta is used but in a way that is different than how it…
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Bava Metzia 65: Higher and Partial Payments
The daf has two mishnayiot. The first describes circumstances when a higher price is allowed to be paid. The second discusses partial payment on a field and…
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Bava Metzia 64: Looking a Lot Like Interest
More on advance payments... Where the product has to already be in one's tradition (in contrast to gourds, for example, that still need to grow). Plus, a…
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Bava Metzia 63: Paying It Forward
Who is Rabbi Oshaya l, an amora, and what is his relationship with tannaitic literature. The daf discusses how a seller can use produce to pay a debt.
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Bava Metzia 62: Market Rates
Is interest recoverable? It's a machloket, of course. Plus, how that plays out in the Jewish vs. non-Jewish courts, and the ways they functioned differently…
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Bava Metzia 61: Only God Knows the Truth
Chapter 5! A new mishnah, a new topic - moneylending, and the prohibition against taking interest. Also, the sidebar explanation for addressing the exodus from…
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Bava Metzia 60: Deceptive Selling
The final two mishnahs of the fourth perek deal with deceptive practices shopkeepers may not do because they hurt the buyer.
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Bava Metzia 59: Tanur Shel Akhnai
The daf tells one of the most famous stories in the Gemara - Tanur Shel Akhnai. But why this story appears and the lessons to be learned from the disagreement…
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Bava Metzia 58: God Owns the Consecrated Animals
Consecrated items for which one bears responsibility are subject to price fraud, but when one is not responsible, price fraud is irrelevant. But what does it…
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Bava Metzia 57: The Temple Won't Take Advantage (Because It's Allowed)
When is the capacity to take advantage of another not relevant? And if there's no risk of exploitation, is there any recourse to cancel the transaction for…
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Bava Metzia 56: When Onaah Does Not Apply
A Mishnah lists cases where onaah does not apply and the Gemara discusses the scriptural sources for these categories.
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Bava Metzia 55: Worth a Perutah, Need a Fifth
2 mishnayot - Mishnah 1: Determining the differential to be considered exploitative, the amount to swear, and the amount to admit to owing money. Plus, 5 cases…
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Bava Metzia 54: The Fifth
The daf discusses a variety if different aspects about the chomesh.
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Bava Metzia 53: Deconsecrating Maaser Sheini
The daf discusses what to do if one’s maaser sheini produce is worth less thana perutah and need to deconsecrate it onto coins.
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Bava Metzia 52: Eroded Coins
A new mishnah! The erosion of minted coins, and its diminished value, with the potential for fraud in using it, as the metal is worn away. Subject to a dispute…
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Bava Metzia 51: Who Can Claim Fraud
A mishnah discusses if there is a time limit to claim price fraud. Also discussed if fraud can be committed by a person irrespective of a business or both? Rav…
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Bava Metzia 50: Fraud at a Sixth
Establishing ona'ah at pricing that is a sixth over the value - with that time frame to consult and complain as temporary recourse. When is the sale considered…
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Bava Metzia 49: A Halakhic Better Business Bureau
Reneging on a verbal commitment toward a sale - illustrative stories. Also, a new mishnah! On "ona'ah" - cases of taking advantage of another in a measurable…
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Bava Metzia 48: Divine Retribution
The daf explores the idea of Mi Sh’Para and what happens of someone reneges on a sale and the beit din cannot enforce the sale.
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Bava Metzia 47: The Significance of a Handkerchief
Defining "kinyan sudar" - a handkerchief version of halipin. Plus, "kinyan agav," where the act of acquisition is secondary and along the way of the…
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Bava Metzia 46: The Exchange Without the Stock
More on exchange - including the question of using a coin as an indication of a formal act of acquisition. For it to work, he has to already have the coins in…
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Bava Metzia 45: The Power of Exchange
One who redeems ma'aser sheni on coins, and the desacralizes the coins to use them to buy the food in Jerusalem - how those coins can be exchanged, a dispute…
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Bava Metzia 44: Commodity vs. Currency
The third perek finished with a discussion about whether intent to misappropriate a deposit is misappropriation. The fourth perek begins with a mishnah…
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Bava Metzia 43: Drinking the Stash
2 mishnayot! Additional cases of an object left with a guardian, and how various variables change the guardian's liability. Note the differences between a…
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Bava Metzia 42: To Be a Proper Guardian
A new mishnah! When a guardian doesn't take good care to protect coins... when is he liable? With a focus on the verses that insist on proper supervision…
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Bava Metzia 41: Moving the Barrel
The daf discusses the last mishnah on 40 about whether a barrel being watched may be moved. A disagreement is presented between Rav and Levi if an act is…
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Bava Metzia 40: Shrinking Produce
Two mishnahs detail how a shomer may deduct from the quantity of produce or liquids left with the shomer when it is returned to the owner.
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Bava Metzia 39: Apotropos - Guardian and Custodian
More on the property of captives. When it's time to harvest from a captives crops, the court appoints a supervisor to take care of that, and then a relative…
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Bava Metzia 38: The Property of Captives
A new mishnah! One who gives produce to another to watch - if it's lost or off, etc., the guardian can't touch the produce because he doesn't own it. But if he…
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Bava Metzia 37: The Thief Who Admits He Stole
A new mishnah! When a thief acknowledges the theft, but he's not sure from whom. Likewise, a deposit. Plus, a discussion of how far can one take the deceit?…
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Bava Metzia 36: When a Guardian Hands Off to Another Guardian
When a guardian transfers the item he's watching to another guardian, without the knowledge or permission of the owner. Plus, a story about an elderly woman…
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Bava Metzia 35: Of Jewels and Cows and Land Transactions
The guardian who has lost something left in his protection can take an oath or pay back the value of the item that's been lost. Or in this case, when there are…
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Bava Metzia 34: HaMafkid
The third perek of Bava Metzia is a classic yeshiva perek of HaMafkid. The perek deals laws of watching or borrowing someone’s object and what happens if that…
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Bava Metzia 33: Your Father, Your Teacher
A mishnah asks whose lost item is more important for one to return - your father or your teacher. The Gemara discussed the merits of studying mikra, mishnah…
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Bava Kamma 32: The Ban on Animals' Suffering
If one finds an animal's in a barn... when is one obligated to return it to the owner of the barn. Plus, a kohen doesn't have to become impure for returning a…
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Bava Metzia 31: You Can Say That Again
When you've returned a lost animal, and the animal runs away again, and you find it again, you have to return it multiple times - as understood from the…
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Bava Metzia 30: Taking Care with Others' Stuff
Found items of different materials - silver, copper, wood, and so on - can be used by the finder in different ways, depending on the substance. Plus, when can…
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Bava Metzia 29: Lost Tefillin and More
A dispute between Rabbi Tarfon and Rabbi Akiva, about whether one can use the funds from the sale of a found animal that isn't monetarily helpful. Also, one…
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Bava Metzia 28: Lost & Found
More on distinguishing marks - and whether they are a Torah requirement or a rabbinic one. Also, how long must one hold on to a lost object? Also, pilgrims to…
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Bava Metzia 27: Returning Lost Objects Is a Mitzvah (But Not Quite Always)
The biblical text for the requirements of returning lost objects, including which objects require returning. How, then, does the question of distinguishing…
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Bava Metzia 26: A Few Considerations
The daf has a few mishnahs dealing with a few halachot around lost objects? Does the location where a lost object is found determine ownership or if it lost?…
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Bava Metzia 25: Dropped Coins
A new mishnah - with a list of when a finder has to proclaim and declare the found item(s), so that the original owner can come forward. With debates over…
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Bava Metzia 24: Be Nice and Give It Back
A story about Mar Zutra the Pious, when a silver cup was stolen, and Mar Zutra finds the guilty party. Unidentifiable items go to the finder - if the finder…
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Bava Metzia 23: Incidental Simanim
The daf discusses objects found that may or may not have a purposeful siman.
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Bava Metzia 22: Hospitality
Several sages were in an orchard, and a worker there gave them samples of fruit, but Mar Zutra did not eat. And then it seems that the orchard owner (Mar bar…
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Bava Metzia 21: Ye'ush and Siman
The daf begins the second perek of the masechet which starts with a mishnah discussing lost objects and when the finder does or does not have to find the…
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Bava Metzia 20: Lost & Found: The Documents Edition
A new mishnah, still on returning lost documents. Beginning with letters that attest to a commitment of obligation or a repossession of property by the court…
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Bava Metiza 19: What is the Norm?
The daf describes a variety of scenarios where documents are found and the different types of fraud that can be committed with a found document
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Bava Metzia 18: Lost (and Found) Documents
A new mishnah! One who finds documents - bills of divorce, papers that free slaves, receipts, etc. - don't return them to the apparent recipient, in case they…
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Bava Metiza 17: Can a Ketubah Be a Get?
Bringing property disputes to court, especially when one part denies part of the terms or what is owed. Plus, the role of witnesses. But we do people trust…
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Bava Metzia 16: People Share the World... And Stuff Happens
A robber who wants to go back and uphold the sale - so that he'll no longer be called a robber. Or so he'll be known as reliable and trustworthy). The question…
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Bava Metzia 15: So Much Unfairness of a Robber's Payback
The case of one who buys land from a robber - what happens when the land has been improved? Who pays for that? Note that the robber may be able to pay back his…
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Bava Metzia 14: Protecting Your Property Purchases
The case of repossessing property that has been sold, with or without a guarantee to the buyer. Plus, two accounts of each case, each of which turns the case…
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Bava Metzia 13: When Promissory Notes Don't Clarify Matters
Found documents (eg, promissory notes) that show a lien on property - in the Gemara's commentary on the mishnah, trying to determine the specifics of the case…
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Bava Metzia 12: Household Acquisition
Two mishnahs on this daf. The first deals with children, slaves, and one’s wife finding an ownerless object and to whom does it belong. The second deals with…
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Bava Metiza 11: The Will to Acquire
A new mishnah - on the acquisition effected by a courtyard. How does the transfer of ownership take effect? What if the "courtyard" is an open field? What if…