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Bava Metzia 70: Charging Interest Non-Jews
Season 22 Episode 70
How being an orphan (minor) changes the terms of the prohibition against interest. Also, a new mishnah: fixed costs on what becomes a loan (via carin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 69: Covering Costs
Season 22 Episode 69
More on the partnerships of yesterday's daf, but in story form. Plus, a new mishnah on appraising animals and their progeny, and when adding sums to …
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 68: Iska
Rav Ashi shares a halacha about pledged property from the sages of Mechoza and explains the root of the word mishkanta. A new mishnah introduces iska…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 67: The Dust of Interest
Season 22 Episode 67
A case where a woman instructs a man to go buy property from her relatives on her behalf, which gives rise to the relative's question whether he'll b…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 66: Asmachta
The daf discusses different scenarios where a states condition may or may not be binding. The terms asmachta is used but in a way that is different t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 65: Higher and Partial Payments
The daf has two mishnayiot. The first describes circumstances when a higher price is allowed to be paid. The second discusses partial payment on a fi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 64: Looking a Lot Like Interest
Season 22 Episode 64
More on advance payments... Where the product has to already be in one's tradition (in contrast to gourds, for example, that still need to grow). Plu…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 63: Paying It Forward
Who is Rabbi Oshaya l, an amora, and what is his relationship with tannaitic literature. The daf discusses how a seller can use produce to pay a debt.
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 62: Market Rates
Season 22 Episode 62
Is interest recoverable? It's a machloket, of course. Plus, how that plays out in the Jewish vs. non-Jewish courts, and the ways they functioned diff…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 61: Only God Knows the Truth
Season 22 Episode 61
Chapter 5! A new mishnah, a new topic - moneylending, and the prohibition against taking interest. Also, the sidebar explanation for addressing the e…
2 years, 2 months ago