Bava Metiza 107: How Do You Take Your Morning Bread?
The daf mentions that it is an Ein HaRah to have someone stand near your field and look at your crops. The many benefits of eating bread in the morning are listed.
Jun 14, 2024•21 min
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Bava Metzia 106: Crop Failures and Their Many Consequences
Natural calamities... and how years with no rain (and therefore no produce) were characterized as "Elijah's years." Plus, calculating produce per the years of Shemitah (and Yovel) - and how that connects to redeeming one's conscrated ancestral lands. Plus, mishnah! Cultivating wheat when the crop fails is a challenge to pay back....
Jun 13, 2024•21 min•Season 22Ep. 106
Bava Metzia 105: Little House on the Prairie and Unsuccessful Crops
A new mishnah - does weeding a field have impact on the transaction of the farmer (vs. landowner). Also, what does a measure of one's load have to do with prayer or tefillin? Plus, one more mishnah on the terms of natural disaster for a field.
Jun 13, 2024•12 min
Bava Metzia 104: Lashon Hedyot
A “meta” daf. Rav Pappa shares what types of farmers the mishnayot on the previous daf discuss. The daf describes situations where lashon hedyot - text that people may typically use - and when it is accepted in a variety of halachic scenarios.
Jun 11, 2024•16 min
Bava Metzia 103: Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers
The 8th perek finishes with a discussion about replacing a rented house that fell. The ninth perek discussed the laws of sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
Jun 10, 2024•17 min•Season 22Ep. 103
Bava Metzia 102: Shiluach HaKan
Who takes the mezuzot in a rented property? The daf discusses the mitzvah of sending a mother bird away to collect her eggs in a rented property.
Jun 09, 2024•19 min•Season 22Ep. 102
Bava Metzia 101: Uprooted Trees and Evicted Homes
The daf discusses the ownership of a tree that is uprooted and lands on someone else’s property. How much notice must be given before evicting a tenant?
Jun 08, 2024•17 min
Bava Metzia 100: Oath-taking to Establish a Sale (except for slaves)
The laws of transactions between buyers and sellers, in parallel to borrowers and lenders. With the example of a pregnant cow that was traded for a donkey... What happens when the parties take opposite positions with differing levels of certainty? Also, the Gemara delves into slaves in the slave market, worth different values - and a buyer and seller who disagree over which slave had been purchased. Plus, a new mishnah on selling olive trees, which then bear fruit. Whose olives are they?
Jun 07, 2024•21 min•Season 22Ep. 100
Bava Metzia 99: 50 Dates Minus 1
Rav discusses a case when a slave brings the borrowed object to the borrower and how does that affect the borrower’s liability. If a stolen item can have different values what does the thief pay the owner?
Jun 06, 2024•17 min•Season 22Ep. 99
Bava Metzia 98: Liable for a Partial Admission
If one person says to another - you owe me 100 dinar, and the other says, I only owe you 50, I don't know ow about the other half - which means he can't swear, because he's not sure... he has to pay the entire amount. That case has a parallel in our mishnah... plus, if you borrow a cow and also the cow owner's services, the question is when is the borrower (or renter) liable? What if there are several stints of borrowing?
Jun 05, 2024•18 min•Season 22Ep. 98
Bava Metzia 97: When the Mice Unite against a Cat
Stories! Unexpected work related harm - gender dynamics and the unlikelihood of mice going after a cat. That is, circumstances of death that we don't expect. Plus, issues of an owner's liability and how to maneuver around it. Also, a new mishnah on how the borrower differs from the renter in terms of liability when a borrower (or rented) animal dies while being either borrowed or rented.
Jun 04, 2024•14 min•Season 22Ep. 97
Bava Metzia 96: Rami Bar Chama Pushes the Halakhic Boundries
Rana bar Chama shares a series of astounding questions exploring when a borrower may or may not be liable. The response to the questions may be even more interesting than the questions themselves.
Jun 03, 2024•12 min
Bava Metzia 95: The Borrower
How do we derive the liability of a borrower for theft and loss? (Verses!) But the obligation to pay comes from logic. But Rav Hamnuna understands the liability of the borrower quite differently.
Jun 02, 2024•17 min•Season 22Ep. 95
Bava Metzia 94: Stipulations on the Torah's Conditions
Conditions, as set by the guardians - which counters the inherent conditions for each of them, as established in the Torah. Plus, exemptions that allow different terms. Also, the case of borrowing (for example) a cow (for example) together with the owner's services.
Jun 01, 2024•13 min•Season 22Ep. 94
Bava Metzia 93: The Shomers
Three mishnahs on this daf which discuss different laws about Shomrim
May 31, 2024•25 min•Season 22Ep. 93
Bava Metzia 92: The Cost of a Cucumber
A new mishnah: the rights of the worker to eat - but what if the value of the produce he eats is more than his wages? It's a machloket. Plus, fine-tuning the extent of these rights. Plus, a hidden scroll of Oral Law quoting Isi bar Yehudah. Also, when a worker ears while working, is that food on top of his wages or is he permitted to eat from that which is not his? Plus, the workers isn't always entitled to eat, nor does he have to, even when he's allowed.
May 30, 2024•19 min•Season 22Ep. 92
Bava Metzia 91: The Problem of Dairy Bread
More on muzzling... Can a court enforce a monetary requirement on one who didn't muzzle when it was needed? What other costs come along with the muzzling or lack thereof, in terms of violating the law (and deserving lashes) vs. incurring costs. Plus, mixing of species in many creative, unexpected ways. Also, 2 mishnayot: the rights of the worker who is not using all of his body to work to be able to eat on the job. Plus, the workers' obligation to return lost items to their employers - in the ti...
May 29, 2024•18 min•Season 22Ep. 91
Bava Metzia 90: Muzzle It!
Trampling grain to remove the outer skin, and other threshing... Plus, the issue of muzzling animals, and how that's complicated by issues of terumah, ma'aser, ma'aser sheni, etc. And where prohibitions kick in. Also, muzzling a non-Jew's animal or having a non-Jew muzzle a Jew's animal (or castrate) - is the non-Jew included in the negative commandment or not?
May 28, 2024•23 min•Season 22Ep. 90
Bava Metzia 89: How Do You Like Your Grapes?
The daf contains a series of baritot expounding the work “B’Disho” in order to teach a variety of different halachot. Then a discussion if a worker is allowed to salt or toast the produce being picked.
May 27, 2024•19 min
Bava Metzia 88: When Ma’aser begins
The daf discusses when does the obligation to tithe begin. Also what produce are animals allowed to eat.
May 26, 2024•16 min
Bava Metzia 87: Abraham and Sarah, in Midrash
This daf is the (or a) talmudic source for several of prominent midrashim about the patriarch Abraham and matriarch Sarah. Also, back to halakhah - dealing with the harvest. Plus, special terms for harvesting from a vineyard, and how they extend to other crops and produce that grow from the ground.
May 25, 2024•15 min•Season 22Ep. 87
Bava Metzia 86: Letters from the Sky
The daf shares the story of Rabbah bar Nachmani and his mysterious death. The Genara tries to understand why Rabbi Yochanom ben Matya uses the image of the Solomon’s banquet.
May 24, 2024•27 min
Bava Metzia 85: How Great Was Rabbi Hiyya!
More aggadah - the suffering of R. Elazar, and not bring buried properly. With Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi's reaction, and his own suffering. Plus, other experiences of suffering and empathy in the context of Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi. Also, the question of people dying "before" their time. Plus, burial practices of these sages and families. Also, the exceptional scholarship and Torah commitment of Rabbi Hiyya. Plus, a hierarchy of other sages.
May 23, 2024•30 min•Season 22Ep. 85
Bava Metzia 84: Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish
The daf shares the poignant story of Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish: hiw they met and ultimately how they both die because of slight. The daf also shares about the life of Rabbi Elazar the son of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
May 22, 2024•21 min
Bava Metzia 83: Caring for the Workers
Closing chapter 6, starting chapter 7. First, 6: If one is a witness, one must come forward to give proof, and avoid litigants needing to take an oath. This law (of Isi ben Yehudah) is then put into practice in a series of example. And 7: More attention to workers rights, especially pertaining to food, while on the job, and also whether an employer can require his workers to work very early and/or very late in the day.
May 21, 2024•16 min•Season 22Ep. 83
Bava Metzia 82: Watching Lost Objects
The daf poses a question about a person who finds a lost object and is the finder considered to be an unpaid shomer or a paid shomer. A new mishnah dealing with the laws around a broken keg but the Gemara has trouble reconciling a barita with our mishnah.
May 20, 2024•13 min
Bava Metzia 81: Put It Down!
A dilemma - when one is exempt from the liability of a borrower, does that mean he has no liability or just as one who is paid to watch over it. Plus, why a donkey who isn't sold is a different case from a gift of pottery, for example. Also, the parameters of the paid guardian, and the requirements of an unpaid guardian, and the interaction with the one who owns the item being guarded. The formulation of statements may make the difference.
May 19, 2024•17 min•Season 22Ep. 81
Bava Metzia 80: Rental Agreements Gone Wrong
3 mishnayot! 1 - If one rents a cow to plow a mountain, but plows in a valley... how does that difference (and the reverse) make a difference in terms of liability? 2 - Renting a donkey to transport wheat, but barley is transported instead - and how either weight or volume may make a difference in terms of the renter's liability. 3 - Terms of renting vs. a paid guardian, plus terms of helping a poor person in this regard.
May 18, 2024•13 min•Season 22Ep. 80
Bava Metzia 79: Rent-a-Donkey (or a Boat)
If a rented donkey dies midway through the journey, the renter pays a partial fee, and complains about the experience. But what if that donkey can be replaced? Plus, what if a donkey is rented for a man to ride, but a woman rides? She's considered heavier on the donkey... Also, renting a boat that doesn't make the journey, but sinks - the questions whether the rental was specific to that boat or any boat, which makes a difference for liability.
May 17, 2024•18 min•Season 22Ep. 79
Bava Metzia 78: River Deep Mountain High
A new mishnah discusses what happens when something to a rented animal and who is responsible for unavoidable injuries. The gemara tries to determine if the first part of the mishnah is the opinion of Rabbi Meir
May 16, 2024•10 min•Season 22Ep. 78
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