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Back to SearchBava Metzia 51 and 52 - Greed is...good? with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Season 22 Episode 51
Today's pages, Bava Metzia 51 and 52, discuss prohibitions on financial exploitation. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to ask: Why do markets exist? Wh…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 50 – Honest Dealers with Producer Josh Kross
Season 22 Episode 50
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 50, discusses the important of honesty in the marketplace. Producer Josh Kross joins us to discuss the importance of…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 49 - Iron Man vs Captain America with Jordan B. Gorfinkel
Season 22 Episode 49
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 49, discusses whether your intentions and your actions should match in business dealings. Comic book creator and car…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 48 - The Road to Communal Hell with Rabbi David Bashevkin
Season 22 Episode 48
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 48, talks about reneging on your previously agreed upon transactions. Rabbi David Bashevkin tells us what this daf h…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 46 and 47 - Play It Again, Pac-Man
Season 22 Episode 46
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Metzia 46 and 47, are all about the asimon, a token that, back in Talmudic times, gained you entry into the bathhouse. Wha…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 44 and 45 - Minority Report with Armin Rosen
Season 22 Episode 44
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Metzia 44 and 45, ponder whether it's right to punish someone for merely contemplating committing a sin. Tablet Magazine's…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 43 - For What It's Worth
Season 22 Episode 43
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 43, gets very specific about how we ought to calculate the compensation someone ought to pay when they misappropriat…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 42 - Financial Advice from the Talmud
Season 22 Episode 42
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 42, delivers a bit of financial advice so sage and timeless that, thousands of years later, it is still cited by inv…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 41 - Not Lovin' It
Season 22 Episode 41
Today’s Talmud page, Bava Metzia 41, delivers a strange ruling: A person, it tells us, doesn't have to cause another financial loss or damages in ord…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bava Metzia 39 and 40 - People over Politics with Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Season 22 Episode 39
Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Metzia 39 and 40, talk about the assignment of property when people are taken captive. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to d…
2 years, 2 months ago