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Back to SearchBava Batra 173 and 174 - Love and Law
Season 23 Episode 173
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 173 and 174, give us a stunning example of a very famous rabbi advocating what at first sounds like a complete viola…
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Bava Batra 171 and 172 - Remember That Now
Season 23 Episode 171
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 171 and 172, ask how to go about doing business with two people who have the same name. How to keep the records stra…
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Bava Batra 170 - The People's Court
Season 23 Episode 170
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 170, offers a small but inspiring meditation on the true meaning of the justice system, warning us not to forget that…
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Bava Batra 169 – More Than Words
Season 23 Episode 169
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 169, looks at the connection between a written contract and the actual thing you're buying. Should you have to return…
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Bava Batra 168 - Excellence, Not Equity
Season 23 Episode 168
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 168, issues an incredible instruction: In some earthly matters, Torah scholars should turn and seek help from their b…
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Bava Batra 166 and 167 - Masterpieces of Deceit, with Tevi Troy
Season 23 Episode 166
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 166 and 167, discuss a dastardly bit of forgery and its subsequent investigation. The Presidentischer Rav Tevi Troy …
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Bava Batra 164 and 165 - Take Me Out to the Old Ballgame
Season 23 Episode 164
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Batra 164 and 165, caution us not to erase a document after it's been signed and try to write a new one in its stead. What…
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Bava Batra 163 - How to Keep it Real
Season 23 Episode 163
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 163, continues the tractate's discussion of documents, signatures, and forgeries. But it also delivers a surprising a…
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Bava Batra 162 - F for Fake
Season 23 Episode 162
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 162, deals mainly with how to make sure your documents aren't forged. But as the history of philosophy teaches us, so…
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Bava Batra 161 - The Birth of Emoji
Season 23 Episode 161
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Batra 161, gives us what may very well be the first ever documented appearance of... emoji. Why did some rabbis sign their …
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