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Bava Metzia 10: Falling On What You Want to Acquire
One who does a formal act of acquisition to acquire something for someone else - the Gemara now says that won't work, in contrast to the previous Gemara. The…
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Bava Metzia 9: Don't Push a Donkey
How does one NOT acquire an animal, using formal acts of acquisition that are effective in other circumstances. With a focus on animals. Also, how the formal…
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Bava Metzia 8: Taking Ownership from Someone or No One
Using a formal act of acquisition to take possession of an object on behalf of someone else - works! (Pending discussion whether it really does, and how that…
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Bava Metzia 7: Hekdesh and Reshut
The daf continues to explore the question if one cab consecrate an item not in one’s reshut. A baraita has an opinion of Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel that explains…
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Bava Metzia 6: The Burden of Proof
What if one complainant grabbed more of the disputed object before the judges? It depends, to some degree, on the reaction of the other party. What if they are…
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Bava Metzia 5: Why We Don't Trust Shepherds
More on Rabbi Hiya and the kal va-chomer of agreeing to part of a claim - with an actual case! (including a partial agreement to a claim as established by…
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Bava Metzia 4: Determining Facts on the Ground
Deriving the kal va-chomer reasoning got the stringent and lenient cases in testimony - and the strength of 2 witnesses (against the statement of the main…
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Bava Metzia 3: Oaths vs. Testimony
When two people claim ownership of an object, the "solution" is for both parties to swear an oath that each has nothing of the other's. Complicated by possible…
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Bava Metzia 2: It's Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine!
An introduction to Bava Metzia, and to the first chapter. Plus, the famous first mishnah - with 2 people laying apparently equal claim to a found object. Or…
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Bava Kamma 119: Holding on to What Is Yours (Or Not)
Stealing from another is like taking a part of the soul of the owner of the item stolen. With proof texts, of course - including the biblical term, "hamas,"…
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Bava Kamma 118: Count Your Sheep!
4 mishnayot: Paying back an original owner should not take place in a deserted area. And: does one have to pay when one can claim ignorance of a need to pay…
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Bava Kamma 117: Comeuppance for R. Yochanan and the Resurrection of R. Kahana
Case reports and the rabbis' rulings: what happens when one Jew turns in another Jew to the authorities (specifically, objects). [Who's Who: Rav Kahana] A…
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Bava Kamma 116: The Laws of Caravans
The daf discussed what are the obligations when traveling with a caravan. Bonus: the daf instructs us on what to do if your caravan is being trailed by a lion.
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Bava Kamma 115: The Law of the Marketplace
The decree of the marketplace - takanat ha-shuk. Where something stolen in the marketplace leads to ye'ush (despair) and new ownership, and difficulty in…
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Bava Kamma 114: Go Tell the Bees That They Are Home
A case of a Jew who is excommunicated because he's caused harm to another Jew, but via a non-Jew: selling a field that borders the property of Jew to a…
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Bava Kamma 113: Excommunication
The daf describes when and how people are excommunicated if they do not listen to the beit din. A new mishnah discussed using funds we assume are stolen. The…
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Bava Kamma 112: Merciful Halakhah
When a thief steals food and feeds it to his children... they don't have to pay back. If he leaves it to the children, and they haven't eaten it yet, the…
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Bava Kamma 111: Never Ever Ever Getting (It Back)
More on the priestly watch families - Yehoyariv and Yedaya - and why each gains or loses, in the event of a robber who swore falsely giving the guilt-offering…
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Bava Kamma 110: A Robbed Convert Without Heirs
A new mishnah which discusses the case on a previous daf of a robbed convert and the asham, principal, and chomesh that mist be brought. The Gemara lists the…
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Bava Kamma 109: Principal and Chomesh
A new mishnah reviews cases where the principal and chomesh are paid. The daf later discusses the unique case of a thief who steals from a convert with no…
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Bava Kamma 108: Who Asks a Negligent Guardian to Watch Their Stuff Again?
More cases of false oaths, paying double, paying a fifth... yet not paying both double and a fifth (only one kind of fine per instance). Also, a case of an…
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Bava Kamma 107: How Can the Torah's Words Be Out of Order?!
One who falsely claims that a thief stole collateral - the obligation to pay fines for that false claim only once the false claim is proven. Which leads into a…
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Bava Kamma 106: Hekeish
Rav Huna teaches a statement of Rav about payment after one takes an oath and which cases this Rav’s statement applies. Rabbi Yochanon explains the verses in…
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Bava Kamma 105: Rava’s teaching
The daf contains an assorted collection of Rava’s teachings. Ben Azzai discusses the case of a witness who could have helped a litigant but swears falsely that…
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Bava Kamma 104: Paying the Fifth
What it means when one appoints an agent to receive payment via a repentant thief, for example. Especially if there are witnesses to the appointment. Of…
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Bava Kamma 103: Much Ado about a Bunch of Flax
A story used to assess halakhic stance: flax that is purchased, but not acquired, and then appreciates in value, and the shopkeeper sold it, with the intent to…
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Bava Kamma 102: Studying vs. Writing the Mishnah
A discussion between two Amoriam (Rav Yosef and Rav Huna) reveals that the order of how mishnayot were studied is different than how they were written down…
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Bava Kama 101: Defining the Art of a Craft
Moving on from dying wool to carpentry: a chair vs. a bench. Also, what is the status of dye once it has been applied to wool - when it's coloring the wool…
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Bava Kamma 100: Red and Black
The daf continues its discussion about moneychangers and coins. Finally the daf has the mishnah that has been quoted many times about wool that was dyed the…
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Bava Kamma 99: The Expert Slaughterer
The Gemara continues to discuss if a craftsman acquires a kli he makes an improvement on and relate this to a disagreement between R. Meir and the Rabbis. The…
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Bava Kamma 98: Indirect Damages: Who Is Liable?
If one throws another's coin into the Mediterranean Sea, when is that exempt from paying back and when must you? Also, what if one burns a promissory note?…
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Bava Kamma 97: Worthless Coins
Comparing slaves to land and to movable objects - unpleasant comparisons, but useful in trying to understand whether one can steal another's slave. Plus, what…
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Bava Kamma 96: When Is a Palm Tree No Longer a Palm Tree?
When a thief improves what he's stolen and sells it or leaves the object to his heirs... the buyer acquires the right to that improvement. But what about if…
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Bava Kamma 95: Rebbi’s Meir and shinui koneh
The daf explores Rebbe Meir’s approach to the question of whether change to an object effects acquisition. A question to consider: does the robber gain from…
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Bava Kamma 94: Rebbe’s Takana for Teshuva
The Daf continues its discussion on shinuy koneh and why the Halacha follow R. Shimon Ben Elazar. R. Yehudah HaNasi constructs a takana to encourage more…
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Bava Kamma 93: Making Something Your Own
If one person invites another to injure himself (or herself), both the physical injury and the damage to a family's reputation. Plus, when one invites another…
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Bava Kamma 92: Pray for Mercy on Others' Behalf
Last mishnah of the chapter: When one injures another, and pays compensation, he still isn't forgiven until the victim offers it -- as learned from the…
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Bava Kamma 91: When an Object Becomes a Weapon
Is there an assessment by the court to establish damages? Certainly, if the injured party is killed, the item is assessed to be a potential tool to kill, but…
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Bava Kamma 90: What Judge Recreates the Cases He Judges?!
A bit more on Takanat Usha. Plus, a man who strikes his slave and the slave dies, the owner is punished with capital punishment. Also, a very long mishnah…
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Bava Kamma 89: Back in Ketuvot
The daf entertains the idea that a woman may sell her ketubah to pay damages to someone she injured or to her husband she injured. The daf finally explains why…
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Bava Kamma 88: A=B=C
The daf tried to determine why slaves are disqualified from being witnesses by comparing slaves to other categories of people. In the middle of the daf is an…
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Bava Kamma 87: Personal Injuries
A new mishnah! It spells out a good number of cases that entail paying the 5 compensations, and when one would be exempt, including what happens when one…
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Bava Kamma 86: Boshet (Humiliation)
On Boshet - humiliation. And how this compensation is assessed. Plus, which sage's opinion is represented in the mishnah. Also, a new mishnah- when one…
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Bava Kamma 85: Repui and Boshet
The daf continues the discussion in different types of payments when a person injures another person specifically repui and boshet and how each is calculated.
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Bava Kamma 84: An Eye for an Eye
When the Torah says, "an eye for an eye," how is that the Gemara concludes that the perpetrator compensates for the damage with money, rather than coming after…
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Bava Kamma 83: If You Learn Greek, Must You Think Greek Thoughts?
Finishing up chapter 7... With more on the prohibition against Greek wisdom, and the language, as well as other "foreign" languages. Also, starting chapter 8…
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Bava Kamma 82: Ezra’s Ten
The daf lists the 10 rules set up by Ezra HaSofer when he resettled the land. Plus there is mention of 10 rules only for Jerusalem. The daf returns to the…
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Bava Kamma 81: The Ten
A barita describes ten rules established by Yehoshua when Bnei Yisroel settled the land. Another barita discusses how all of the tribes’ portions shared equal…
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Bava Kamma 80: The Curative Properties of Goat Milk
More on the prohibition against raising certain small animals. Plus, the story of a pious person who had pain in his heart, and the doctors had no cure except…
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Bava Kamma 79: How Much Chutzpah? Ignoring God vs. Ignoring People
How a thief can take formal possession of an animal even while on the owner's property, depending on when the thief leaves that property, for example. Plus, a…
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Bava Kamma 78: Kilayim animals
How does the prohibition against mating diverse kinds of animals impact the fourfold or fivefold payments. Plus our favorite halakhic animal the Koy appears on…
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Bava Kamma 77: Meat - Holy and Treif
A tiny page of Gemara on amud left, with a massive amount of commentary by the Baalei HaTosafot - on the red heifer, and a parallel discussion from the…
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Bava Kamma 76: Answers from Eretz Yisroel
The daf examines the opinion of Rabbi Shimon and his distinction between payment of the fourfold or fivefold fine in the case of a korban with achraut versus a…
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Bava Kamma 75: Can a Thief Get Out of Penalties by Coming Clean?!
[Who's Who: Rabban Gamliel and Tavi] The case of witnesses and admission, and when in that timeline one's obligation to pay a fine kicks in. Plus, the…
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Bava Kamma 74: 70a vs. 74b
More on the disagreement between Abaye and Rava on the Mishnah from 70a. The daf then shares a new Mishnah which is the inverse of the Mishnah on 70a.
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Bava Kamma 73: Contradictions as the Beginnings of Conspiracy Theories
Rabbi Yosi's opinion on the witnesses who saw the theft and the slaughter or sale. Plus, a conversation about the generations of dispute in this arena. Also…
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Bava Kamma 72: The Moment of Shehitah
More on the halakhot about slaughtering an animal that was stolen or consecrated, but slaughtered in the wrong place in the Temple - such that the slaughtering…
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Bava Kamma 71: Cooking on Shabbat
The daf discusses a three way disagreement between Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yehuda, and Rabbi Yochanan HaSandlar on the status of food cooked on Shabbat and how it…
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Bava Kamma 70: Rabbinic Power of Attorney
A practice from Neharde'a - where writing a document of agency or power of attorney was not permitted. (With the discussion of what the issues were) Also, a…
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Bava Kamma 69: Discreet Efforts against Thievery
More on R. Yochanan's position... and attempts to determine whether he really held the position ascribed to him. With a counter from chases in another mishnah…