Daf Yomi brought to you by the Beit Mordechai Campus Kollel This podcast is brought to you in loving memory of Joshua Yitzchak Swartz יהושע יצחק בן שאול ראובן הלוי May his Neshama have an Aliyah from these words of Torah
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Parsha Pearls - insights into the weekly parsha by Rabbi Jonathan Altman brought to you by the Beit Mordechai Campus Kollel This podcast is brought to you in loving memory of Joshua Yitzchak Swartz יהושע יצחק בן שאול ראובן הלוי May his Neshama have an Aliyah from these words of Torah
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Bava Batra 57 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-21 Chazakah for temporary activities in a courtyard. Placing oneself into temptation. The clothing, table, and bed of a talmid chacham.
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Bava Batra 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-20 What is the chatzav plant? Conspiring witnesses and how it relates to issues of chazakah. Testifying about the whole matter, not half a matter.
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Bava Batra 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-19 Acquiring land by paying its property tax. A boundary marker and the chatzav plant (whose roots grows straight down) divide properties.
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Bava Batra 54 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-18 Which actions show clear intent for chazakah? How much of an ownerless field is acquired through plowing part of it? The time gap after the purchase of a land from a non Jew.
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Bava Batra 53 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-18 Acquiring property by placing or removing a stone of a wall. Acquisition of two ownerless fields with a boundary marker between them. Acquiring property from a convert who died without heirs.
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Bava Batra 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-15 Can a man who sells property to his wife claim that it was a trick to see if she has hidden money? When a document of sale acquires property. Does the husband receive produce from property which he sold to his wife?
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Bava Batra 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-14 A husband and wife selling a field together. Ownership of the product of an item vs the capital thereof. A husband can establish a chazakah in his wife’s property which he damages.
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Bava Batra 52 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-16 Property received from married women, slaves, and children. What is considered a safe investment for children? A brother managing the inherited estate.
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Bava Batra 49 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-13 A document signed on trust. A man cannot establish a chazakah in his wife’s property. Can he prove a sale from her?
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Bava Batra 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-12 A get forced by idolators is invalid. When a forced sale of a field is invalid. Status of a forced kiddushin.
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Bava Batra 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-11 A grandson of a robber can establish a chazakah. A craftsman who leaves his profession can establish a chazakah. A robbers proof of purchase is not accepted as proof.
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Bava Batra 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-10 If one’s garments were exchanged for someone else’s. When an sharecropper does not establish a chazakah. Four cases of testimony whereby a person could hypothetically prevent collection from himself.
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Bava Batra 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-09 A sold donkey which was seized by an idolator claiming to own it. A craftsman who received an article without witnesses.
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Bava Batra 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-08 One cannot testify on a land he sold, since it can be used to pay his debt. One may testify about movables he sold. If a purchase without a guarantee is reimbursed where the seller never owned it.
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Bava Batra 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-07 How one partner can testify for another. Judging or testifying in a case involving a jointly owned Torah. Testifying about a field stolen from himself to prevent another party from claiming it.
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Bava Batra 42 : Marc Chipkin : If sales or loans become public knowledge through witnesses without a document. People who cannot establish chazakah because of their access to the property. How a partner can establish a chazakah.
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Bava Batra 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-05 Any chazakah without a claim explaining his ownership, is not a valid chazakah. Accidently annexing some of a neighbor’s land. Bringing proof that a former owner lived in property for at least one day.
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Bava Batra 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-04 Which activities in front of witnesses need permission to be recorded in a document? A document informing that a transaction about to take place is coerced. A secret gift document.
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Bava Batra 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-03 When the witnesses to the protest will not tell the occupier. In front of how many people does one have to lodge a protest? How often must the former owner protest?
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Bava Batra 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-02 Does a buyer acquire land underneath a tree? Protesting from a different province. Does a protest have to lodged in the presence of the occupier?
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Bava Batra 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-01 Establishing a chazakah by consuming the produce from a third of the trees each year. If one sold his trees to one person and his field to another. If one sold his field and retained the trees, or sold his trees and retained the land.
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Bava Batra 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-31 Unusual uses of property which do not establish a chazakah. One can establish a chazakah in slaves by using them for three years. Does plowing establish a chazakah?
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Bava Batra 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-30 Applications of the principle "whoever is stronger wins". If an outsider took possession of the disputed property. If the former owner himself loaded a basket of the field’s produce onto the claimants shoulders, it is a chazakah immediately, without three years of consumption.…
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Bava Batra 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-29 A defendant agrees with a single witness that he grabbed an item but claims it is his. A witness for two years. The Beth Din should not sieze a disputed item but if it does, it shouldn't release it.
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Bava Batra 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-28 Leveraging a collateral to collect another debt. Does admission of a false claim impact past produce consumption? Proving only 2 years worth of possession - does the fruit have to be returned?
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Bava Batra 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-27 Does the Beth Din reverse itself? Combining witnesses who witnessed separate events, or testified separately. If a person originally had a legitimate document, but lost it.
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Bava Batra 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-26 A claim of "it was my father's property and I inherited it" vs "I have been in the land for 3 years ". Changing ones claim. Contradictory says of witnesses.
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Bava Batra 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-25 A person who couldn't protest occupation since he was away. A person admitting that there was an original owner. A person who is easier to litigate against in court.
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Bava Batra 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-24 Three-year chazakah is because a buyer is careful with his document for three years. It has to be uninterrupted use, during the times that people normally use the property.
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Bava Batra 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-23 Establishment of presumptive ownership. The source of 3 years is from a goring ox. Completing the chazakah in a shorter time.
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Bava Batra 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-22 The area of a tree's nourishment. A tree growing partly inside and partly outside Israel. Tree branches which extend into the public domain.
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Bava Batra 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-21 Vibrations damaging a house. Chaff causing damage. Distancing a tree from a field.
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Bava Batra 25 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-20 The direction of the Divine presence. Which way to face when praying. A tree cannot be planted near a cistern.
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Bava Batra 24 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-19 More cases of majority vs proximity. Distancing trees from a city. Distancing a threshing floor from a city and a neighbour.
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Bava Batra 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-18 There is no chazakah for causing damage. The rights and restrictions of a dovecote. the relative strength of following "רוב" – majority, and "קרוב" – proximity.
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Bava Batra 22 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-17 Allowance for peddlers from another town to sell cosmetics. The death of Rav Adda bar Abba. Foot traffic between walls.
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Bava Batra 21 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-16 Yehoshua ben Gamla's education system. Choosing between different teachers, and the hazards of learning with errors. Intruding on a neighbor’s business.
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Bava Batra 20 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-15 Various items in a window opening which reduce the size for tumah. Salt being used as a barrier. Safety requirements for ovens in houses.
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Bava Batra 19 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-14 Why stones and sand are each missing from a different list of items that generate heat. Do seeds spread roots sideways? Food left in an opening does not reduce its size regarding tumah.
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Bava Batra 18 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-13 Can one place something dangerous near the border of one's neighbour before anything is there? Distancing mustard plants from bees. Is it incumbent upon the owner of the hazard to distance it from the victim?
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Bava Batra 17 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-12 The personalities over whom the angel of death had no power, and those who died without sin. Distancing a pit in your property from your neighbours pit. Digging a pit near the boundary when his neighbor does not have a pit.
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Bava Batra 16 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-11 The Satan is the Prosecutor, he is the Evil Inclination, and he is the Angel of Death. Job's questioning whether G-d could have gotten confused. G-d blessed Avraham "ba'kol".
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Bava Batra 15 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-10 Who wrote the last eight verses of the Torah? Who wrote the various books of Tanach? When did Job live?
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Bava Batra 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-09 The dimensions of the ark and what was kept therein. Order of Neviim and Ketuvim.
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Bava Batra 13 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-08 Either you set a price for my share and buy it, or I will set a price for your share and buy it. Dividing two maidservants with different skills. Combining volumes of Tanach into a single scroll.
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Bava Batra 12 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-07 A doorway that is capable of being reopened. Paths established by the public. Prophecy of fools and children.
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Bava Batra 11 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-06 The laws of charity taught by King Munbaz. Requisite size for forcing division of a shared property. Providing space for entrances and can these be fenced in.
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Bava Batra 10 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-05 Why G-d didn't sustain the poor. A person’s losses for the year are fixed for him on Rosh Hashanah. The charity of nations is a sin for them.
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Bava Batra 9 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-04 If paupers requesting food or clothing are investigated. With charity each coin given combines together to become a great total. He who pursues opportunities to do charity and kindness will find life, charity and honour.
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Bava Batra 8 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-03 Rebbe’s policy to only provide sustenance in a famine to the learned. The greatness of redeeming captives. Laws relating to charity collectors.
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