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Bava Batra 135: Ineffectual Deathbed Documents
Season 23 Episode 135
When a man is dying, they ask him in a roundabout way whether his wife will be subject to yibum. When he says she could marry a kohen gadol means she…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 134: The Greatness of Hillel the Elder's Students
Season 23 Episode 134
A practical example, of one who found his children to be lacking and gave all of his property to Yonatan ben Uziel instead of to his official heirs. …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 133: Giving Gifts Instead of Inheritance: What Does It Really Mean and How Bad Is it?
Season 23 Episode 133
More on Rabbi Yehudah ben Berkoka's position, with the property being established as an inheritance vs. as a gift. But what is the real difference? W…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 132: A Woman Receives Property, Apparently with Limits
Season 23 Episode 132
A case where a husband gives his wife the entirety of his property as a gift, not an inheritance, where her ketubah is fundamentally folded into the …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 131: Appointing an Administrator for One's Estate
Season 23 Episode 131
What happens when a healthy person wants to allocate his property as gifts? In contrast to the cases we've seen to this point, which have been deathb…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 130: You Can Only Judge the Case before You
Season 23 Episode 130
More on stipulations of inheritance vs. those of gift-giving. What if the stipulation is about someone who is suitable to be inheriting in any case? …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 129: Gifting Inheritance
Season 23 Episode 129
How to handle inheritance - with oral designation as a gift, and not as "inheritance." Including the question of when one must stipulate that a gift …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 128: Rabbi Abba's 7 Inquiries
Season 23 Episode 128
This daf presents 7 queries about some quirky cases that were sent by Rabbi Abba to Rav Yosef Bar Chama [Who's Who: Rav Yosef bar Chama and also Rabb…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 127: When Is a Male Not Male? When Is a First-born Not First-Born?
Season 23 Episode 127
How the laws pertaining to a "Tumtum" affect his ability to inherit the double portion. This status has all kinds of implications to other areas of h…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 126: Double Portion Tension
Season 23 Episode 126
More on the double portion inherited by the first-born. What happens if the first-born renounces the extra part of his double portion, so that he end…
1 year, 8 months ago