Daf Yomi

Bava Metzia 107 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-14 "You should be blessed in the field, you should be blessed in the city". The power of the evil eye. The cause of illness. Benefits of eating bread in the morning.

Bava Metzia 106 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-12 Definition of province-wide disaster. The power of prayer to avert a decree. Arguing that if the tenant had planted, it may have miraculously succeeded despite the province-wide disaster. Paying from the crop produced by the field.

Bava Metzia 105 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-12 A tenant who does not want to weed the field. A field that doesn't produce a sufficient crop. A burden of four kavs for prayer and tefillin.

Bava Metzia 104 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-11 Lease me this irrigated field. Commitments from a renter to compensate for leaving field fallow. The details of an iska arrangement.

Bava Metzia 103 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-10 Property lease where the parties dispute how much time has passed. Borrowing an item in good working order forever. Sharecroppers who lease a field have to abide by the local custom.

Bava Metzia 102 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-09 Items found in a courtyard - manure and nests. In a rental of "twelve dinars per year, one dinar per month,” the extra month’s rent is divided.

Bava Metzia 101 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-08 Olives trees three years after being deposited in someone’s field. Going down into someone's field and planting trees without the owner’s permission. Rules of evicting a tenant at the end of his lease.

Bava Metzia 100 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-07 Swapping an item and a dispute arise over whether there was a birth before or after the transaction. Swearing in a dispute over which of two slaves or fields was sold.

Bava Metzia 99 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-06 Sending a borrowed cow with one’s slave. If a borrower only acquires the item with usage or even after pulling it into his possession. Determining the value of a stolen item.

Bava Metzia 98 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-05 Cases where the borrower/renter would have to swear. Borrowing an animal with the owner in his service and then renting it without the owner. The animal dying on the way to the borrower.

Bava Metzia 97 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-06-04 A borrowed cat which died while killing mice. Asking for water to be brought is considered enough of a element of working. Dispute if a cow died during its loan period or its rental period.

Bava Metzia 96 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-03 Borrowing for unusual purposes, or for less than a perutah’s value. Can the agent or a slave substitute for the owner? A husband's use of his wife's melog property.

Bava Metzia 95 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-02 The source of the exemption of the owner being in the service of the renter applies to lots and theft. Negligence of a guardian where the owner was in his service. Does the owner have to be doing the same work as the animal for the exemption to take effect?

Bava Metzia 94 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-06-01 A guardian can stipulate to reduce his liability. A condition which is impossible to fulfill. Borrowing a cow, and borrowing the services of the owner together with it.

Bava Metzia 93 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-31 Those who guard produce may eat from it based on common practice. The four types of custodians and their levels of responsibility.

Bava Metzia 92 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-30 A worker eating more than he is paid. Eating the first and only grape cluster picked. Does a worker eat his own food or does he eat Heaven’s food?

Bava Metzia 91 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-29 How can one be liable for monetary compensation as well as lashes for muzzling an animal? Does a worker have to work with both his hands and feet? If one was working with one grapevine, may he eat from another grapevine?

Bava Metzia 90 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-28 Threshing terumah and maaser. Asking a non-Jew to do a prohibition on your behalf. Is an owner obligated to remove external impediments which would stop the animal eating?

Bava Metzia 89 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-27 Different concepts learned from threshing. Can a worker toast grain and eat it while he is working? Salting produce and the maaser obligation.

Bava Metzia 88 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-26 At which point does produce becomes obligated in maaser? Source that a human worker may eat detached produce and that that animals may eat from attached produce.

Bava Metzia 87 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-25 Righteous promise a little and do a lot, the wicked say a lot, and do not even do a little. Why the angels asked about Sarah’s whereabouts? The Biblical food entitlements of certain workers.

Bava Metzia 86 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-24 Rabbah dying while being pursued by the authorities. The greatness of Avraham's feast. Avraham’s desire to find guests.

Bava Metzia 85 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-23 Rebbi's efforts to bring children to Torah. The importance of the blessing before learning Torah. The greatness of Rabbi Chiya and how he would ensure that Torah would never be forgotten.

Bava Metzia 84 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-22 The beauty of various sages. The story of Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish. Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Shimon’s suffering, death, and delayed burial.

Bava Metzia 83 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-21 Rabbah bar bar Chanan and the porters who broke his barrel. Day laborers hired without stipulating terms, or with a commitment to feed them. Rabbi Elazar the son of Rabbi Shimon’s role as officer to arrest thieves.