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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
Bava Batra 125: The Case of the Great-Grandmother
Season 23 Episode 125
Different views from the sages in Nehardea, in the land of Israel, and elsewhere - with the dispute over whether the payment of a debtor returning th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 124: When the First-born Does Not Get a Double Portion
Season 23 Episode 124
A beraita (Tosefta) presents the idea of enhancement to the property that takes place after the death of the father - for which the first-born does n…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 123: The Double Portion
Season 23 Episode 123
On the double-portion for the first-born. And the various ways that can play out. Plus, going back to the biblical treatment of the double portions. …
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 122: Dividing the Land
Season 23 Episode 122
How DID the divide the land of Israel in the time of Joshua? Was it divided according to tribe? Or per capita? (We recommend googling for a map) Also…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 121: Tu B'Av: The Maidens and More
Season 23 Episode 121
A side-step away from the laws of inheritance, to address the nature of the 15th of Av and also Yom Kippur. Which of course leads back to the daughte…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 120: A Miracle for Yocheved
Season 23 Episode 120
Starting with some aggadah - a miracle that was done for the daughters of Tzlofchad that parallels the miracle done for Yocheved: bearing children "o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bava Batra 119: What Moshe Didn't Know
More Tzlofchad, his inheritance (including a double portion), and his daughters. Plus, Shimon HaShikmoni weighs in to say that Moses always knew the …
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 118: The Righteous Shall Inherit the Land
Season 23 Episode 118
Presenting several of the six questions on how the land was divided when the Children of Israel came to the land of Israel -- from Rav Pappa to Abaye…
1 year, 9 months ago