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Bava Batra 145: Wedding Presents
Season 23 Episode 145
What happens to gifts that are given in advance for an upcoming wedding, and then either bride or groom dies? (or perhaps less dramatically, if weddi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 144: Forced Service to Rome
Season 23 Episode 144
If one leaves heirs some of whom are minors and some of whom are of age - with various stipulations - what is the halakhah? Plus, if one married a ch…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 143: The Donkey and the Five Women
Season 23 Episode 143
When one doesn't respond to a stipulation of inheritance that would go to a person and a donkey... To understand this case, a somewhat parallel case …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 142: The Fetus Does Not Inherit
Season 23 Episode 142
More on the powers of acquisition (or lack thereof) of a fetus. What is the timing of a person trying to bequeath property to a fetus, when that pers…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 141: It's Surely Worse to Be a Woman, But Go Support Your Daughters
Season 23 Episode 141
When a man commits to giving an unborn child a set amount of money - regardless of the gender of the child, which apparently makes a difference in te…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 140: Those Poor Disadvantaged Males
Season 23 Episode 140
A new chapter! Chapter 9 -- with a mishnah from the previous daf (as the beginning of the chapter) and a second mishnah on this daf as well. Firstly,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 139: The Strength of an Undocumented Loan
Season 23 Episode 139
A new mishnah (from the bottom of 138): A father who gives his land to his son, while retaining the rights to the produce for himself, until after hi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 138: More Deathbed Utterances
Season 23 Episode 138
More on deathbed requests, as presented in a series of beraitot. How much attention must be given to the wording of such requests? What happens when …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 137: A Woman and Her Date Palm
Season 23 Episode 137
If one person gives another person an etrog, and that the recipient should pass it along to another person after his own death, then there's a disput…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 136: What Can an Heir Do with an Early Bequest?
Season 23 Episode 136
A new mishnah! On how a healthy person can transfer property to others -- to go into effect after that person's death: the phrasing of "from now unti…
1 year, 8 months ago