Daf Yomi

Bava Batra 170 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-12 A document can be acquired through handing it over to another person. Witnesses signed on a document vs those delivering the document. Does one have to corroborate claims he made unnecessarily?

Bava Batra 169 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-11 A replacement document for a sale must be written without a mortgage to prevent double compensation. A guarantee which is missing from a document is assumed to be an error of the scribe.

Bava Batra 168 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-10 A Rabbi is considered reliable to recognise a woman of he concentrates. An exaggerated statement. Replacing an erased document.

Bava Batra 167 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-09 One should not write his signature at the bottom of a blank document. Which party must authorise various types of documents. Assuming someone’s identity based on his given name.

Bava Batra 166 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-08 Conflict between different terms in a document. Vague terms in a document. Only one missing letter can be learned from the beginning of a document, but not two letters.

Bava Batra 165 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-07 Writing a tied document instead of a standard one. Combining a witness who signed a document with one who testifies orally about the transaction. Combining testimonies given in different courts.

Bava Batra 164 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-06 Text and/or signatures written on erased parchment. A tied document is postdated by one year. Three sins from which no person is saved every day: thoughts of sin, examining one’s prayer and lashon hara.

Bava Batra 163 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-05 Defining the exact measurement of the two lines that would disqualify a document. A gap between the witnesses signatures and the court's certification. A document whose text and signatures are on a single line.

Bava Batra 162 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-04 The basic elements of the document are repeated in the last line. A document with a line and a half of empty space. Using disqualified witnesses to fill up space in a document.

Bava Batra 161 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-03 Where do witnesses sign on a tied document? Various mechanisms to prevent forgery. What is a minimally acceptable signature of a witness?

Bava Batra 160 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-02 A normal document vs a tied document. How many witnesses sign and where they sign. Source of these documents in the Torah.

Bava Batra 159 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-01 One can inherit his grandfather directly, not through his father. Relatives cannot testify because of a decree not because they aren't trusted. A son doesn't inherit from him mother in the grave.

Bava Batra 158 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-30 The house collapsed on someone and his wife, killing them. Different properties - the ketubah and tzon-barzel and melog property. The house collapsed on someone and his (unmarried) mother, killing them.

Bava Batra 157 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-29 The house collapsed on someone and his father (or anyone he inherits), and there was a kesubah or debt against the son’s assets. If a borrower writes in the document that he mortgages “whatever properties I will acquire,” and he later acquired property- is it effective? If we say it is and one borrowed from two people, and then purchased property is there...

Bava Batra 156 :Marc Chipkin : 2024-11 -28 Different ages and their halachic significance. A daughter receiving an expensive brooch. Kinyan "agav"....

Bava Batra 155 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-27 What is the minimum age to sell inherited property? Testimony of someone too young to sell property- we consider their general wisdom.

Bava Batra 154 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-26 Dispute if the giver must prove he was a sh'chiv me'ra with witnesses or via ratification of the document. Someone sold property and died, and his relatives claim he was a minor at the time. The seller claiming the document was a sham.

Bava Batra 153 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-25 A document in which was written “in life and in death”. Who must prove if the benefactor was a sh'chiv me'ra or not? A field in the summer or winter.

Bava Batra 152 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-24 A sh'chiv me'ra's gift where acquisition is added - did this make it stronger or actually detract altogether? Enhancing the powers of the document. Writing and giving the same property to different people.

Bava Batra 151 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-23 A sh'chiv me'ra can retract from a gift even if he does not recover, and even to give it to another. The words of a sh'chiv me'ra are considered like they are written and handed over to the recipient, even without making ano acquisition. A sh'chiv me'ra can also retract from his gift.

Bava Batra 150 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-22 What is the meaning of "any amount"? There are five people where the laws of their gifts only apply if they write over all their possessions. What is called "possessions"?

Bava Batra 149 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-21 A sh'chiv me'ra who concecrated or donated all of his property and then recovered. A sh'chiv me'ra who sold all of his property and then recovered. If a person admits that something in his possession belongs to someone else, is he believed?

Bava Batra 148 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-20 A sh'chiv me'ra's gift has to conform to a healthy person's gift. Determining the difference between a sh'chiv me'ra's gift and a healthy person's gift. Is a partial retraction considered a full retraction?

Bava Batra 147 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-19 Various sources that the gift of person on his deathbed is effective even without a formal acquisition. Is this effective biblically or just rabbinically?

Bava Batra 146 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-18 Who is defined as a poor person? What type of engagement gifts are refunded? A sh'chiv me'ra who have away all of his possessions and then recovered.