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Bava Batra 167: How Far People Go to Commit Fraud
Season 23 Episode 167
More on the tips and tricks in documents to avoid the possibility of forgery or fraud -- beginning with not leaving too much blank space for someone …
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 166: The Need for Lawyers
Season 23 Episode 166
If a document has terms such as "silver" or "gold" in it, but without more detailed specification of the amount, the Gemara establishes the bare mini…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 165: Terms of Agreements
Season 23 Episode 165
Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel prepared documents occurring to the practice of the land - regular or bound/tied - but did he have to? Certainly, the differ…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 164: New Ways of Forging: Erasures and Dates
Season 23 Episode 164
A document with signatures - on erased parchment - is considered valid, though it was erased. One erasure was identifiable, as compared to repeated e…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 163: Empty Lines Invite Forgery
Season 23 Episode 163
A gap of two lines of between the text and the witnesses' signatures invalidates the document - but does it include the air above and below those lin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 162: Empty Space
Season 23 Episode 162
More on documents and the implications of establishing all kinds of things on the basis of a document's authority. Including an important regulation …
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 161: Room for Fraud
Season 23 Episode 161
The Gemara raises concerns about the potential for fraud via the document that has been witnessed, if text were added to the document and a new signa…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 160: Securing Your Land for the Babylonian Exile
Season 23 Episode 160
Chapter 10! A new mishnah - on the way documents are formally signed the details of their contracts within confirmed. With 2 kinds of documents - "re…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 159: New Parameters in Inheritance Cases
Season 23 Episode 159
The laws as established in the Land of Israel.... when a son borrows against his father's property, and then the father dies -- a text that is then e…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bava Batra 158: Collapsing Case Studies
Season 23 Episode 158
New mishnayot! A case of a house that collapsed on a husband and wife -- apparently, a second marriage, as the heirs of each deliberate which of the …
1 year, 7 months ago