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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Bava Kamma 118: Count Your Sheep!
Season 21 Episode 118
4 mishnayot: Paying back an original owner should not take place in a deserted area. And: does one have to pay when one can claim ignorance of a need…
2 years, 6 months ago
Bava Kamma 117: Comeuppance for R. Yochanan and the Resurrection of R. Kahana
Season 21 Episode 117
Case reports and the rabbis' rulings: what happens when one Jew turns in another Jew to the authorities (specifically, objects). [Who's Who: Rav Kaha…
2 years, 6 months ago