Daf Yomi

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.

Bava Batra 125 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-28 Distinguishing between collecting land or money. A husband's claim of assets which his late wife would have inherited. Anyone who gives a gift saying “after you it should go to someone else,” is like saying the second recipient acquires the gift from now.

Bava Batra 124 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-27 Taking a double portion in improvements after the father’s death. Taking a double portion in a loan payment, or interest of a debt.

Bava Batra 123 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-26 Leah and Rachel. The firstborn was returned through Rachel's modesty in giving the signs to Leah. Esav will be delivered into a descendant of Joseph.

Bava Batra 122 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-25 The land was divided into twelve equal portions by the lottery and the urim v'tumim. Differences between a father’s and mother’s estates.

Bava Batra 121 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-24 Six reasons Tu B’av is a Yom Tov. Seven people’s lives spanned the history of the world. The decree in the desert did not include those more than sixty years old.

Bava Batra 120 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-23 Yocheved miraculously regained her physical youth. The daughter's of Tzlofchad could marry into any tribe, and the restriction for others was only for that generation. Connection between vows and animals slaughtered outside the Temple.

Bava Batra 119 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-22 Israel is described as a "morasha". The daughters of Tzlofchad were wise, they were expounders of the Torah, and they were righteous.

Bava Batra 118 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-19-21 Joshua's advice to the children of Joseph. The tribe of Joseph is not subject to the evil eye. Which portions of land did Joshua and Caleb receive?

Bava Batra 117 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-20 Was Israel apportioned to those who left Egypt or those who entered the land, or both? Regarding ordinary inheritances, the living inherit the dead. but here, the dead inherit the living.

Bava Batra 116 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-19 Anger at one who dies not leave a son to inherit him. One who leaves a virtuous son. Who inherits when deciding between a grandfather vs brother?

Bava Batra 115 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-10-18 Descendants of closer relatives precede other relatives. The tribes will never become extinct. A deceased's granddaughter will inherit before his own daughter.