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Bava Batra 11: When You Can't Divide and Conquer
Season 23 Episode 11
A beraita on Munbaz the king, who depleted his treasures that had been filled and protected by previous generations. Plus, Who's Who on this personal…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Batra 10: Rabbit Chanina ben Tryadon’s Tzedakah
The daf continues to teach about the importance of tzedakah and its special relationship to the Jewish people. A barita mentions the tzedakah that wa…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Batra 9: Tzedakah
The daf continues to explain about the right way to perform the mitzvah of tzedakah but its discussion is interrupted by an interesting story about R…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Batra 8: Rabbinic Exemptions
The daf discusses why rabbis do not need to contribute to public works and to illustrate their point a story is about Rebbi and his distribution if f…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Batra 7: Why Elijah Stopped Visiting
Season 23 Episode 7
4 cases of property disputes, where one party wants to build and the other wants to prevent the building. Also, a new mishnah - and the way people ca…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Batra 6: Talmudic Building Code - Take 2
Season 4
Rav Huna and Rav Yosef disagree over different types of chazakah of usage. Abaye teaches how to built houses next to a public domain and still mainta…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Batra 5: Ravina vs. Ronya
Season 23 Episode 5
The case of an inner all and an outer wall - can one party induce the other the participate in payment for fencing just by virtue of putting them up …
2 years, 2 months ago
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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago