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Bava Batra 92: Let the Buyer Beware (Or Not?)
Season 23 Episode 92
Beginning chapter 6 - with a new mishnah. One who sells produce that is sometimes used for eating and sometimes for planting -- what happens if the b…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 91: Theological Holes in the Story of Ruth
Season 23 Episode 91
In the middle of 7 beraitot -- the last of which addresses increases to the cost of wheat, and then the Gemara turns to Megillat Ruth. Specifically, …
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 90: Hoarders, Market Demand, and Food Scarcity
Season 23 Episode 90
A given town has limits on how much it can increase the size of its measures. If the rationale is to avoid inflation, then why increase at all? Perha…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 89: Criminal Minds - and the Torah Scholars Who Know Them
Season 23 Episode 89
Further discussion of the laws that pertain weights and measures, with a mnemonic to help them remember 11 beraitot, all pertaining to weights and me…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 88: Honest Shopkeepers
Season 23 Episode 88
A new mishnah! (the last of the chapter) -- on the upkeep of weights and measures. That is, wiping them clean, specifically those that are used for w…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 87: A Child Breaks an Oil Flask and the Storekeeper Is Liable (Maybe)
Season 23 Episode 87
2 mishnayot! First: The case of someone who sells food and drink -- that is, oil and wine -- and the price rises or falls, and the seller or the buye…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 86: Kinyan Meshicha
The daf describes how kinyan meshicha works and questions if it an alternative to hagbaha or only done when hagbaha cannot be performed
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 85: The Point of No Reneging
Season 23 Episode 85
A baraita with the 4 different methods by which a buyer can acquire merchandise -- for example, dry good. That is, until the measuring cup (as it wer…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bava Batra 84: All the Colors of the Sun
The daf has a discussion about the color of the sun based off the mishnah’s halacha about white and red wheat. A new mishnah discusses the sale of fr…
2 years ago
Bava Batra 83: The Right to Renege
Season 23 Episode 83
A series of (fun) questions about the trees, the land, and the purchasing thereof. Including details of the distances between the trees and the impli…
2 years ago