Daf Yomi

Bava Batra 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-12 A get forced by idolators is invalid. When a forced sale of a field is invalid. Status of a forced kiddushin.

Bava Batra 47 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-11 A grandson of a robber can establish a chazakah. A craftsman who leaves his profession can establish a chazakah. A robbers proof of purchase is not accepted as proof.

Bava Batra 46 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-10 If one’s garments were exchanged for someone else’s. When an sharecropper does not establish a chazakah. Four cases of testimony whereby a person could hypothetically prevent collection from himself.

Bava Batra 45 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-09 A sold donkey which was seized by an idolator claiming to own it. A craftsman who received an article without witnesses.

Bava Batra 44 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-08 One cannot testify on a land he sold, since it can be used to pay his debt. One may testify about movables he sold. If a purchase without a guarantee is reimbursed where the seller never owned it.

Bava Batra 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-07 How one partner can testify for another. Judging or testifying in a case involving a jointly owned Torah. Testifying about a field stolen from himself to prevent another party from claiming it.

Bava Batra 42 : Marc Chipkin : If sales or loans become public knowledge through witnesses without a document. People who cannot establish chazakah because of their access to the property. How a partner can establish a chazakah.

Bava Batra 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-05 Any chazakah without a claim explaining his ownership, is not a valid chazakah. Accidently annexing some of a neighbor’s land. Bringing proof that a former owner lived in property for at least one day.

Bava Batra 40 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-08-04 Which activities in front of witnesses need permission to be recorded in a document? A document informing that a transaction about to take place is coerced. A secret gift document.

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.