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Bava Kamma 68: The Timeline of Despair
Selling a stolen animal and the penalty incurred during the time when the owner is or is no longer hoping to get the animal back - subject to a machloket on…
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Bava Kamma 67: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Is a changing an object a mechanism by which someone can acquire an object or does it always maintain its identity as the original object? Why does the rule of…
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Bava Kamma 66: Despair
How a thief acquires a stolen item, via the thief's changing the item or the despair of the owner that it will never be recovered (the thief still has to…
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Bava Kamma 65: When the Thief Wins
When the thief pays back what he owes plus the double, is the value assessed from the time of theft, or from the time of judgement? What if the value of an…
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Bava Kamma 64: Getting Out of Paying the Fine
What do the different animals mentioned in the verse teach us about these categories of theft? Also, the question of whether the main case in the verse is…
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Bava Kamma 63: Thievery vs. A Claim of Thievery
What happens when a person comes to collect the item that another US safeguarding, and the guardian says - it was lost (or stolen). The guardian can be asked…
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Bava Kamma 62: Hidden Responsibilities and the Penalties for Theft
The case of one who gives a gold coin to a woman, and tell her that it is silver - what is she obligated to pay if it's damaged? Or lost or stolen? Given that…
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Bava Kamma 61: It's No Surprise That Buildings Contain Things
Several mishnayot. Beginning with more on fire, if it crossed a public road, a river, a wall - barriers that usually prevent the spread of fire. With a delving…
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Bava Kamma 60: Who By Fire
A Mishnah describes the ways in which someone is liable for damages caused by fire. Rabbi Yitzchak Nafcha gives an aggaditc and halachic interpretation of…
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Bava Kamma 59: How Mourning the Temple Is Relevant to Damages
More on R. Nachman's assessment of damages for the chopped-down tree, and his arrival at one-sixtieth of the value. Plus, the story of wearing black shoes like…
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Bava Kamma 58: When an Animal Gives Birth on Another's Property
An animal that wanders into someone's private property and causes damage - the owner of the animal is liable. But if the animal caused damage because it gave…
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Bava Kamma 57: Shomer Sacher vs Shomer Chinam
The daf explores a disagreement between Rabbah and Rav Yosef over the status of person watching a lost object. Rabbah compares this to a Shomer chinam who is…
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Bava Kamma 56: When the Heavenly Court Steps In
4 violations for which a person is not liable in the human court, but the heavenly count will take an accounting. Also, specific treatment of some of the cases…
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Bava Kamma 55: Everlasting Good for the Jewish People
An apparent tangent about why the first account of the Ten Commandments in the Torah has the word "good," and the second account does not. Plus, if you see the…
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Bava Kamma 54: When an Ox is More than an Ox
The Gemara discusses the case of a blind or deaf Ox that causes damages. Then a new Mishnah that teaches there are eight times in the Torah where a specific…
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Bava Kamma 53: When the Ox and Pit Damage Together
Rabbi Natan has an interesting calculation for damages when both the ox and pit are responsible. Rava discusses a case where the damagers are person, ox, and…
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Bava Kama 52: Good Enough for an Ox, But Not for a Camel
A pit and its passersby - where one person covers a cistern, the next person does not...who's liable? And at what point is the owner's covering of the pit…
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Bava Kamma 51: Injured Animals, Cisterns, and Water
A case of an ox that falls into a 6-tephachim deep irrigation ditch, which injured it, perhaps fatally. Plus, a new mishnah about a pit that has 2 owners - and…
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Bava Kamma 50: Nechunya’s Pits
The dad shares a very well known story about Nechuyna who dug ours and how Rabbi Hanina Ben Dosa saves his daughter. A new Mishnah explains more halachot about…
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Bava Kamma 49: Not Just Piles of Money
A new mishnah, this one more challenging, in that it deals with miscarriage (and women in general). A person hits a woman and she miscarries, he pays her…
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Bava Kamma 48: Crouching Ox, Hidden Pit
The Daf discusses a statement by Rava that if an Ox crouches and causes damage the owner is exempt from paying damages. Kofer appears again on this Daf with a…
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Bava Kamma 47: Eating Poison
What happens if someone brings property into someone else's private domain, without permission, then the homeowner is exempt from paying for any damage to that…
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Bava Kamma 46: Dividing Disputed Property
Chapter 5, and its opening mishnah: If an ox (a "tam" ox) gores a cow, and the cow was pregnant and the calf is found outside of the cow, is that because of…
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Bava Kamma 45: The Only Sure Protection against a Goring Ox
2 mishnayot: one on the timing of the court's decision regarding an ox that has killed and might need to be out to death, and how that impacts the value of the…
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Bava Kamma 44: The Intent of Animals
Mishnayot! If an ox goes to do one thing, including intending to kill another who is not the one who was killed, the ox is "exempt." Plus, when subsequent…
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Bava Kamma 43: Unintentional Death
When a slave or freeman is killed unintentionally the fine and Kofer imposed on the owner is not paid. The daf also discusses what happens when someone dies by…
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Bava Kamma 42: A Prospective Asset
The daf brings a disagreement between Rav Asi and Rabbi Akiva on paid damages for a killed Eved Caanani. The Gemara quotes a barita discussing how a lifer…
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Bava Kamma 41: The Killer Ox
The Daf begins with a Mishnah that states an Ox that kills a person is stoned and other relevant halakhot. The Gemara shares a careful reading of a verse in…
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Bava Kamma 40: Atoning for a Goring Ox
Establishing "kofer," the payment paid by the owner of a mu'ad ox that killed a person - as a measure of atonement. Or is it just part of damages? That's a…
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Bava Kamma 39: Stadium Oxen
A new mishnah: How does the status of the owner have impact on the obligation to pay damages in the event of one's ox goring another? Specifically, one who is…
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Bava Kamma 38: Fulfilling Your Role on Earth
Some aggadata... Addressing the verse that teaches the Jew vs. non-Jew's goring ox and the obligation to pay. Which explains why a Canaanite's ox would incur…
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Bava Kamma 37: Selective Goring
How the ox becomes mu'ad, and how am ox can be expected to gore some, but not others (including with regard to other species). Also, how frequently, and in…
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Bava Kamma 36: How Many Oxen Can An Ox Gore
A new Perez starts off with a Mishnah discussing what happens with damages payments when a tam ox gores multiple oxen owned by multiple people. The Gemara…
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Bava Kamma 35: The Burden of Proof
Cases of damage by the animal vs a person - where the question of who is liable that can be less pleasing to the person who has suffered damage, and might not…
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Bava Kamma 34: How Much Is That Ox Worth?
A discussion of the goring oxen, with monetary values attached - which raises the question of appreciation and depreciation, and how the changes in value may…
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Bava Kamma 33: If Your Ox Gores My Ox...
A new mishnah: Oxen that gore each other - who pays how much depends on which animal is how damaged, and then depends on the status of the oxen. Likewise if an…
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Bava Kamma 32: Damages and Unexpected Parallels
3 new mishnayot: the first, about the damage of a person with a barrel and the other with a beam, who collide in the public domain. If the beam damages the…
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Bava Kamma 31: Pileup
If someone falls and then causes another person to be injured are they liable? Do they need to warn the people behind them?
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Bava Kamma 30: Everyone Has a Portion in the Land of Israel
2 mishnayot! The first one addresses damage caused by something put in the public domain - specifically, one who hides something damaging or makes a fence out…
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Bava Kamma 29: Ownerless objects
The daf clarifies cases of negligence and what is the liability if an owner for an object one declares ownerless but then damages someone.
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Bava Kamma 28: Don't Take the Law into Your Own Hands
[Who's Who: Ben Bag Bag] The Gemara brings a lot of cases to argue that one cannot take the law into his or her own hands - even when it comes to making a new…
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Bava Kamma 27: Left Objects
The seocnd perek closes with a series of outlandish accidents that try to help define the parameters of liability. The third perek begins with a Mishnah…
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Bava Kamma 26: When the Logic Doesn't Apply
More on kal va-chomer logic, and several apparently relevant examples (of damages) when it is not applied. Plus, a new mishnah - and how a person is always…
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Bava Kamma 25: Sufficient Logic
First, a long mishnah - paying damages for the ox that damages. Depending on where the damage took place. But what impact does the location have, once you're…
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Bava Kamma 24: When an Animal You Don't Own Is Your Weapon
More on how an ox shifts from being "tam" to "mu'ad" - is the ox or the person whose somewhat negligence has given it room to gore? Also, the case of a person…
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Bava Kamma 11: Ulla x 7
Are there categories of damagers who the course does help with the valuation of the damages? Where category is the borrower in? The daf also includes sevens…
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Bava Kamma 23: Big Mouth
Does a cow’s mouth belong to the owner and if a cow eats someone else’s property is the damage taking place in the damager’s property - the mouth of the cow?…
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Bava Kamma 22: How By Fire
The daf presents a makhloket between Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish on the how fire damages. The Gemara also mentions a Jewish holiday that usually does not…
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Bava Kamma 21: Dog on a Hot Tin Roof
How does the owner of an animal that caused damage by eating pay for that damage? Specifically when the animal turns its head to eat from the side - even…
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Bava Kamma 20: Squatter's Rights
What if your animal eats food from the pack on the back of another animal? Or comparable damage. Who's responsible? Is this standard behavior or not? Is it…
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Bava Kamma 19: Wag the Dog
More, yes, on attenuated causation. [Who's Who: Rabbi Yehudah Nesiah] What about a wagging tail? Does the animal's owner need to hold on to the tail to prevent…
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Bava Kamma 18: Don't... Excrete Where You Eat
Why are chickens pecking at a rope from which a bucket will drop, if they peck through? Will that make a difference as to how much the owner of the chickens…
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Bava Kamma 17: Can Chickens Break a Bucket?
Wrapping up the first chapter - with some aggadata doing some analysis of biblical verses that seems to connect to the halakhic topics at hand in both the…
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Bava Kamma 16: Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!
The daf discusses how different wild animals are damagers and can they ever be not considered muad. The Mishnah finally spells out some of the differences…
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Bava Kamma 15: Why 3?
Why do we need three proofs to determine that women are included in the laws of damages. A Mishnah discusses other types of damagers.
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Bava Kamma 14: 4 or Maybe 3
The daf finishes up it’s discussion of the second Mishnah in our Masechet by discussing the 4 rules of damages attributed to Rabbi Shimon Ben Elazar. A new…
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Bava Kamma 13: Kodshim as a Damager
What happens when Kodshim cause damage and are they considered property? The daf comments in what to do about duplicate mishnahs.
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Bava Kamma 12: Rabbi Yossi HaGilili and Kodshim Kalim
Rav Nachmun issues a halahkic ruling about orphans and the repayment of loans. The daf explores when do kodshim kalim becone subject to meilah and thereby…
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Bava Kamma 10: Partial Damager
The daf discusses what is mean to cause some of the damage and what liability that incurs for the damager. Then the Gemara presents scriptural sources that the…
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Bava Kamma 9: Inheriting Debt
The compensation for damages is supposed to be from the best land... Or from money (cash). Or even from bran? Which is it? Plus, the case if two brothers who…