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Bava Batra 115: Prioritizing Sons - and Rabbinic Halakhah
Season 23 Episode 115
A new mishnah! On the order of inheritance, including the portion each receives (or doesn't) -- prioritizing sons over daughters, not surprisingly (…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 114: Limiting a Son's Maternal Inheritance
Season 23 Episode 114
When can the respective parties renege on a formal act of acquisition (kinyan)? Of course, it's a machloket -- whether they can walk it back for as …
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 113: Making Sense of Inheritance Genealogies
Season 23 Episode 113
How a husband has the right to inherit from his wife. Plus, identifying the players of the biblical genealogies of yesterday's daf. Also, a discussio…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 112: Inheriting within the Tribe
Season 23 Episode 112
When interpreting a verse from genealogies in the Book of Chronicles becomes an essential point to the laws of inheritance -- when the son, Yair, had…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 111: The Daughters Won't Inherit the Earth
Season 23 Episode 111
With many topics on this daf… the case of a son and a daughter inheriting their mother's estate, with the debate over the son's precedence. With a lo…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 110: Biblical Heiresses
Season 23 Episode 110
A discourse on the families in the Torah -- including the children of Aaron, with regard to establishing the laws of inheritance. Also, back to halak…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 109: Inheritance Hierarchy
Season 23 Episode 109
A person's son is considered to be his primary son, and not even the deceased's father, but the father may precede the deceased's daughter. Which rai…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 108: Inheriting the Land: We Don't Start with Calamity
Season 23 Episode 108
A new chapter! With an introduction to the basis of the laws of inheritance. Including the rules of the first-born, and referring to the daughters of…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 107: "So Animals Can't Jump Over the Fence": Dividing Property
Season 23 Episode 107
A case of a debtor coming to collect a deceased father's debt from one of two brothers who had divided their father's estate: is the brother who cove…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bava Batra 106: Inheritance by Lottery
Season 23 Episode 106
A new mishnah! On the sale of a field with demarcations of the property, where the buyer can hold the seller to those specifications, with a one-sixt…
1 year, 9 months ago