Daf Yomi

Bava Batra 39 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-03 When the witnesses to the protest will not tell the occupier. In front of how many people does one have to lodge a protest? How often must the former owner protest?

Bava Batra 38 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-02 Does a buyer acquire land underneath a tree? Protesting from a different province. Does a protest have to lodged in the presence of the occupier?

Bava Batra 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-01 Establishing a chazakah by consuming the produce from a third of the trees each year. If one sold his trees to one person and his field to another. If one sold his field and retained the trees, or sold his trees and retained the land.

Bava Batra 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-31 Unusual uses of property which do not establish a chazakah. One can establish a chazakah in slaves by using them for three years. Does plowing establish a chazakah?

Bava Batra 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-30 Applications of the principle "whoever is stronger wins". If an outsider took possession of the disputed property. If the former owner himself loaded a basket of the field’s produce onto the claimants shoulders, it is a chazakah immediately, without three years of consumption.

Bava Batra 34 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-29 A defendant agrees with a single witness that he grabbed an item but claims it is his. A witness for two years. The Beth Din should not sieze a disputed item but if it does, it shouldn't release it.

Bava Batra 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-28 Leveraging a collateral to collect another debt. Does admission of a false claim impact past produce consumption? Proving only 2 years worth of possession - does the fruit have to be returned?

Bava Batra 32 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-27 Does the Beth Din reverse itself? Combining witnesses who witnessed separate events, or testified separately. If a person originally had a legitimate document, but lost it.

Bava Batra 31 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-26 A claim of "it was my father's property and I inherited it" vs "I have been in the land for 3 years ". Changing ones claim. Contradictory says of witnesses.

Bava Batra 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-25 A person who couldn't protest occupation since he was away. A person admitting that there was an original owner. A person who is easier to litigate against in court.

Bava Batra 29 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-24 Three-year chazakah is because a buyer is careful with his document for three years. It has to be uninterrupted use, during the times that people normally use the property.

Bava Batra 28 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-23 Establishment of presumptive ownership. The source of 3 years is from a goring ox. Completing the chazakah in a shorter time.

Bava Batra 27 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-22 The area of a tree's nourishment. A tree growing partly inside and partly outside Israel. Tree branches which extend into the public domain.

Bava Batra 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-07-21 Vibrations damaging a house. Chaff causing damage. Distancing a tree from a field.

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?