Daf Yomi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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".

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?

Bava Batra 14 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-09 The dimensions of the ark and what was kept therein. Order of Neviim and Ketuvim.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bava Batra 7 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-02 A neighbour who refuses to compromise. Rights of inheritors where one received a mansion and the other received a garden. If a city’s security needs are collected on the basis of net worth.

Bava Batra 6 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-01 Chazakka vs a migo. Established rights of usage in a neighbor’s property. Rooftops facing each other across a public domain.

Bava Batra 5 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-30 Assigning the cost of the fourth wall. When a partner is believed to say he contributed toward the wall. Do people pay debts before they are due?

Bava Batra 4 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-29 The story of how Herod rebuilt the Temple. How do we place a mark on a wall to show ownership? A person whose field is surrounded on three sides.

Bava Batra 3 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-28 How the partners’ agreement to divide the courtyard is binding. The difference between the first Beis Hamikdash and the second. Demolishing a shul to build a new one.

Bava Batra 2: Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-27 Partners building a wall when dividing their jointly owned courtyard. Do they have to agree to do this, and is "damage caused by sight" ie viewing a neighbor’s private activities problematic?

Bava Metzia 119 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-26 Opinions that hold that wherever the Sages gave one permission to do something, and thereby caused damage, he is exempt from paying. Vegetables growing in the vertical surface between two gardens of different elevations. Shoots growing out of a trunk.