Daf Yomi

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.

Bava Batra 145 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-17 Can a woman claim “Give me my husband and I will rejoice with him!” and keep the kiddushin money? If one did not attend his groomsman’s wedding, and if the marriage is different than his. Masters of aggadah and masters of statements of Rabbis.

Bava Batra 144 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-16 If one marries off his oldest son in a wedding house, the son acquires it. A brother’s work appointment as a household member is shared by the estate. When groomsmen’s gifts are repaid to the common estate.

Bava Batra 143 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-15 "You and the donkey should acquire my possessions”. When an individual and a group is mentioned, each receives half. Improving an estate before dividing it.

Bava Batra 142 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-14 People acquired a deceased convert's property, but heard his wife was pregnant, and then she miscarried. Laws of a firstborn do not apply to a fetus. An existent child acquires a gift whereas future recipients do not.

Bava Batra 141 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-13 Preference for a daughter over. a son. A daughter born first is a good sign for sons. One who transfers possessions to a fetus, the fetus does not acquire them.

Bava Batra 140 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-12 Changes in the value of the estate and how that affects the beneficiaries. Taking the widow into the calculation of the value of the estate. A tumtum gets pushed away by both sons and daughters.

Bava Batra 139 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-11 When younger siblings receive the same marriage funding that older siblings received. A husband is both a purchaser and a heir in his wife’s assets. Sons and daughters in a large or small estate.

Bava Batra 138 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-10 Protesting against receiving a gift. When the order in a sh'chiv me'ra's gift indicates the recipients acquire sequentially. Can witnesses record a sh'chiv me'ra’s claim without knowing its veracity?

Bava Batra 137 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-09 Selling property if it is due to go somewhere else afterwards. A gift from a sh'chiv me'ra takes effect after death, not at the time of death. Can a gift intented to be returned, be concecrated?

Bava Batra 136 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-08 Splitting between the capital of a property and what it produces. Selling the capital portion and various scenarios around this. Is the ownership of the fruit equivalent to owning the whole property?

Bava Batra 135 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-07 Concern for witnesses in a distant place. The admitting brother has to give the proportional amount due to the alleged brother. A deathly ill person giving a gift through a document.

Bava Batra 134 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-06 The eighty students of Hillel. Claiming one has children to exempt his wife from yibum. If one who said he divorced his wife in the past is believed regarding the future.

Bava Batra 133 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-05 Giving property as a gift vs inheritance. The impropriety of writing away one’s inheritance and not giving it to ones sons. Yosef ben Yoezer's son.

Bava Batra 132 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-04 One who wrote all his property to his wife, and then the husband’s debtor came to collect it. Assessing a person's intentions. A wife facilitating a transfer of land to the sons loses her ketubah.

Bava Batra 131 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-03 A healthy person can also redistribute his inheritance. Ketubah of male children. Writing away all one’s possessions to his wife is merely appointing her as a guardian.

Bava Batra 130 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-02 One can redistribute his inheritance: two versions. The relative strength and weakness of a firstborn relative to a normal son. Which is preferable : saying something is "halacha" or ruling in an actual case?

Bava Batra 129 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-01 Different opinions whether the term of gift can validate a redistribution of one’s estate. Retracting a statement within a short time period.

Bava Batra 128 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-31 Giving testimony after becoming blind. One who says his wife should receive a share in his estate. A borrower says he paid half a loan and witnesses testify he paid it fully

Bava Batra 127 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-30 Various exemptions regarding a tumtum who was later identified as a male. Two children, one of whom is a firstborn. The father's credibility to identify a child as a firstborn.

Bava Batra 126 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-19-29 A firstborn who protests receives a double portion of unauthorised improvements. Is the firstborn's extra portion considered his before the division of the estate? A father who stipulates to divide the inheritance differently than the Torah’s laws.