Daf Yomi

Sanhedrin 2 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-19 How many judges are required for various Torah laws. Sources for the number of judges in various areas. Differences between monetary and injury cases vs admissions and loans.

Bava Batra 176 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-18 The status of a handwritten note. Where a guarantor signs is important. Does a guarantor have to formally commit?

Bava Batra 175 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-17 A sh'chiv me'ra who admitted owing someone money. A loan recorded in a document may be collected from נmproperties sold by the borrower, but an oral loan is only collected from the borrower’s unsold properties. Is a lien on property from the Torah?

Bava Batra 174 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-16 Which expressions imply a standard guarantee and which imply a super-guarantee. A guarantor who paid the lender without consulting the orphans. Guaranteeing a Ketubah vs a normal debt.

Bava Batra 173 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-15 If one holding a document must prove it is his. Collecting from an guarantor. A kablan is a super- guarantor.

Bava Batra 172 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-14 A document for a hundred cannot be substituted with two documents of fifty each, or vice versa. A document of two people named Yosef ben Shimon in one city. Are we concerned that documents fall from people?

Bava Batra 171 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-13 The replacement document of a partially paid debt. A document whose recorded date corresponds to Shabbat or Yom Kippur. Writing a receipt for a whole debt.

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.