Podcast Episodes

Bava Batra 4: The Last Hasmonean, Preserved in Honey

Season 23 Episode 4

How Herod became king, how Bava ben Buta advised him, and how even Herod's evil had an after-the-fact silver lining of Herod's beautiful Temple. Plus…

2 years ago

Bava Batra 3: Talmudic Building Code

Season 23 Episode 3

The daf explains the terms gvil and gazit and what they mean halakhically. What’s an amah traksin and did it exist in the second Temple. Rav Chisda e…

2 years ago

Bava Batra 2: A Partition or a Division

A new Masechet! What happens if two people jointly own a courtyard and one if them wants a wall built? A lengthy discussion on the daf if sight can c…

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 119: Roots and Leaves

Season 22 Episode 119

A last mishnah! On divided properties, including gardens, when one is above the other - who owns the produce? Unusually, the mishnah explains the rat…

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 118: Public Damages

The daf opens with mishnah that discussed when a change in wages is allowed. A second mishnah lists different types of items that can damage a Reshut…

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 117: I Did Not Sign Up for This

Season 22 Episode 117

More on the upstairs/downstairs neighbors, who share maintenance and the like. Including issues of when a tenant would move in with the landlord (or …

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 116: Upstairs Downstairs

The daf finishes the ninth chapter of Bava Metzeia with a disagreement between Abaye and Rava about a slaughtering knife. The tenth chapter discusses…

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 115: The Milestone

The daf contains two mishnahs which contain halakhot about securities and when one may not take a security

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 114: A Graveyard visit with Eliyahu

Rabah bar Avuha meets Eliyahu and asks three questions. The daf returns to its discussion of collateral and almost seems to undermine the concept.

2 years ago

Bava Metzia 113: One Bed Two Bed

When and how can a lender collect a security? The daf also contains a very strange baraita about what a lender must leave a borrower.

2 years, 1 month ago