Daf Yomi

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.

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.