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Bava Metzia 10: Falling On What You Want to Acquire
Season 22 Episode 10
One who does a formal act of acquisition to acquire something for someone else - the Gemara now says that won't work, in contrast to the previous Gem…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Metzia 9: Don't Push a Donkey
Season 22 Episode 9
How does one NOT acquire an animal, using formal acts of acquisition that are effective in other circumstances. With a focus on animals. Also, how th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Kamma 8: Taking Ownership from Someone or No One
Season 22 Episode 8
Using a formal act of acquisition to take possession of an object on behalf of someone else - works! (Pending discussion whether it really does, and …
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Kamma 7: Hekdesh and Reshut
The daf continues to explore the question if one cab consecrate an item not in one’s reshut. A baraita has an opinion of Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel tha…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Metzia 6: The Burden of Proof
Season 22 Episode 6
What if one complainant grabbed more of the disputed object before the judges? It depends, to some degree, on the reaction of the other party. What i…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Metzia 5: Why We Don't Trust Shepherds
Season 22 Episode 5
More on Rabbi Hiya and the kal va-chomer of agreeing to part of a claim - with an actual case! (including a partial agreement to a claim as establish…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Metzia 4: Determining Facts on the Ground
Season 22 Episode 4
Deriving the kal va-chomer reasoning got the stringent and lenient cases in testimony - and the strength of 2 witnesses (against the statement of the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Metzia 3: Oaths vs. Testimony
Season 22 Episode 3
When two people claim ownership of an object, the "solution" is for both parties to swear an oath that each has nothing of the other's. Complicated b…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Metzia 2: It's Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine!
Season 22 Episode 2
An introduction to Bava Metzia, and to the first chapter. Plus, the famous first mishnah - with 2 people laying apparently equal claim to a found obj…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bava Kamma 119: Holding on to What Is Yours (Or Not)
Season 21 Episode 119
Stealing from another is like taking a part of the soul of the owner of the item stolen. With proof texts, of course - including the biblical term, "…
2 years, 4 months ago