Daf Yomi

Bava Metzia 70 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-05-08 Can orphans receive interest? The ownership of "tzon barzel" properties. Lending to a non-Jew with interest.

Bava Metzia 69 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-07 1. Unilaterally dividing a partnership of money vs. a partnership of merchandise. The distinction between lending money and rental of articles. The Torah only forbade interest paid]from the borrower to the lender.

Bava Metzia 68 : Marc Chipkin ; 2024-05-06 Leasing back to the borrower for a fixed amount. Joint ventures with half-loan half-profits structures. How much the managing partner must be paid?

Bava Metzia 67 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-05 A mistaken waiver is not an effective waiver. Dealing with pledged properly where the borrower can evict the lender by paying early. Different methods to avoid the problem of the yield of the property being considered interest.

Bava Metzia 66 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-04 Reassuring someone is not a binding commitment. An asmachta (exaggerated statement) as it relates to a borrower’s commitment that if he fails to pay, the lender keeps his field.

Bava Metzia 65 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-03 One may increase the rent of his property for delayed payment, but one may not increase the purchase price of a sale because of delayed payment. A "tarsha" - selling on credit at a higher price. Partial payment for a purchase which is completed retroactively upon full payment.

Bava Metzia 64 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-02 Advance purchase of produce which grows on its own. A transaction which is close to profit and far from loss. Using a borrower’s property for free or at a discount.

Bava Metzia 63 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-05-01 The final explanation of our mishna. Goods can be converted into money and vice versa. Rabbi Yehuda's view that interest contingent on one side of an agreement is permitted.

Bava Metzia 62 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-30 Does the court require the return of interest paid? Two people who were traveling, and only one had a flask of water. If both drink from it, they will both die from thirst, but if one drinks it, he will survive to reach a settlement. Tearing up a document containing interest provisions.

Bava Metzia 61 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-29 Interest prohibited from the Torah vs prohibited rabbinically. The connection between stealing, overcharging and interest. Various commandments connected to coming out of Egypt.

Bava Metzia 60 : Marc Chipkin: 2014-04-28 Mixing produce to deceive buyers. Practices to attract customers, and improving the appearance of merchandise. The difference between neshech and tarbit.

Bava Metzia 59 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-27 The severity of embarrassing someone in public. The gates of tears and ona'ah are never closed. "The Torah is not in heaven".

Bava Metzia 58 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-26 Half shekels sent with agents that got lost or stolen. Animals for which one bears responsibility. Wronging someone with words.

Bava Metzia 57 : Marc Chipkin: The items not subject to ona'ah - can the sale be voided? Deconsecrating hekdesh onto something less valuable. Interest does not apply to hekdesh.

Bava Metzia 56 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-24 Maaser sheni of demai. Items not subject to ona'ah. Items planted in the ground before they take root.

Bava Metzia 55 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-23 The five laws which apply to a minimum of a perutah. There are five surcharges of a fifth. The Sages treated their laws as strictly as Biblical laws.

Bava Metzia 54 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-22 Is the "fifth" a 20% surcharge or 25%? Is adding a fifth essential to redemption? Adding a fifth onto the fifth.

Bava Metzia 53 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-21 Maaser sheni worth less than the minimum amount. Maaser sheni entering and leaving Jerusalem. Does the "fifth" added onto maaser sheni redemption need to have a minimum value?

Bava Metzia 52 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-20 Rate of ona'ah for deficient coins. Time limits for returning deficient coins. Deconsecrating maaser sheni on a deficient coin.

Bava Metzia 51 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-19 A defrauded seller can always retract. There is no ona'ah for a householder. Entering into a sale on condition that there is no claim of ona'ah.

Bava Metzia 50 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-18 Does an overcharge of less than a sixth take effect immediately? If the overcharge is greater than a sixth can one retract indefinitely? Halacha : for less than a sixth, the sale is valid, and the deviation is waived immediately. If it is greater than a sixth, the sale can be voided. If the deviation is a sixth, the sale is valid, but he returns the difference. These last two claims must be made before enough time elapses to show the purchase to a merchant or relative.

Bava Metzia 49 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-17 Does retracting from a verbal commitment constitute lack of trustworthiness? Definition of ona'ah- over and under charging.

Bava Metzia 48 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-16 The "mi she'para" curse on someone who retracts from a purchase after giving money. Do we actually say the curse or just warn about it? Does a down payment acquire equal to its value, or the entire purchase?

Bava Metzia 47 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-15 Whose utensil is used to perform chalipin? Can an insignificant item be used for chalipin? Does an item have to be pulled into ones possession to acquire it from the the Torah?

Bava Metzia 46 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-14 Various chalipin discussions - can coins be acquired through chalipin, assessment of a item's value for chalipin, using disqualified coins for chalipin.

Bava Metzia 45 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-13 Maaser sheni being deconsecrated onto gold coins. Various explanations of this dispute. Coins and chalipin.

Bava Metzia 44 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-12 Is mere intention enough to be considered misappropriation? When exchanging gold coins for silver coins, the buyer’s acquiring of the gold coins acquires the silver coins for the seller, but the seller’s acquiring of the silver coins does not acquire the gold coins for the buyer.

Bava Metzia 43 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-11 Depositing money with different people. Misappropriation of a deposit - at what time is the person considered responsible?

Bava Metzia 42 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-10 Safeguarding money. Blessing is only found in that which is hidden from the eye. The mother hiding a deposit which she thought was her sons.

Bava Metzia 41 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-09 A guardian who steals a deposit and returns it without the owner’s knowledge, or to the wrong place. Does misappropriation of a deposit requires a partial loss for the guardian to be liable?

Bava Metzia 40 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-08 Deducting normal depreciation from produce. Can one deduct on the basis of a percentage? If one may mix settled sediment back into oil when selling it.

Bava Metzia 39 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-07 All those who accept to manage a relative’s property, we evaluate the profits for them like a sharecropper’s normal share. A young child is not installed in a captive’s property, nor is a relative installed in a young child's property. The doubtful estate of captives.

Bava Metzia 38 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-06 What to do with deposited produce which is starting to decay. Produce which is becoming excessively ruined may be sold. Laws of a captive’s property.

Bava Metzia 37 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-05 Stealing money from one of two people, you have to pay both back vs two people who deposit an item with someone, only the lower amount needs to be returned. Definite vs doubtful claims.

Bava Metzia 36 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-04 A guardian who gave over an item to another guardian, is he liable if something happens? Being negligent and then something unavoidable happens.

Bava Metzia 35 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-03 People often believe that the lender’s honesty brought about his wealth. Until when can property which was appraised and seized to pay a debt be returned? A rented cow can be on-lent.

Bava Metzia 34 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-04-02 How a guardian acquires the double payment. Agreeing to pay is tantamount to paying. Payments of heirs, partial payments, or a wife’s property.

Bava Metzia 33 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-04-01 Who is defined as one's main teacher? Comparing the study of different areas of Torah. A guardian who pays the owner when he could have exempted himself via an oath receives the additional payments if the thief is found.

Bava Metzia 32 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-31 Not listening to one’s father to transgress a sin. One has to unload an animal for free but can get compensation for loading an animal. The prohibition of causing suffering to animals.

Bava Metzia 31 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-30 Saving land from damage. When a running or grazing animal is considered lost. Many double expressions in the Torah.

Bava Metzia 30 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-29 A found garment should be spread out for its benefit, but not for the finder’s benefit.Tthere are times that you may hide. Jerusalem was destroyed only because they judged there according to Torah law...?!

Bava Metzia 29 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-28 What one can do with money received from the sale of a lost item. Looking after a scroll, and a garment.

Bava Metzia 28 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-27 Until when is one obligated to announce a lost item? How a lost item is announced. Lost animals which incur a cost to maintain.

Bava Metzia 27 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-26 Laws derived from the verse about lost items. Lost items worth less than a perutah don't have to be returned. Is the law to return lost objects based on providing identifying marks Biblical or Rabbinical?

Bava Metzia 26 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-25 Coins found near animal dealers in Jerusalem are assumed to be maaser sheni. If someone saw a sela fall from one of two people, he must return it, because the owner does not despair of it. Possible transgressions for unlawfully taking a lost item to keep.

Bava Metzia 25 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-24 Produce or money found in front of a container. Three coins one upon the other must be returned. Something hidden, or possibly hidden, may not be touched.

Bava Metzia 24 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-23 Returning new articles to a Torah scholar. One who finds something in a major thoroughfare, they belong to the finder. Finding slaughtered animals.

Bava Metzia 23 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-03-22 Indentifying marks- if they are likely to be trampled upon, if they could have come about on its own. Is the place where an item is found, or the number of items found, significant?

Bava Metzia 22 : Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-21 Separating terumah on behalf of someone. A lost item swept away by a river is permitted to be kept by the finder - and this resolves the "despair with awareness" discussion.

Bava Metzia 21: Marc Chipkin: 2024-03-20 Finds that have to be announced and those that can be kept. Quantity of item lost vs the effort in recovering it. Despair without awareness ie where the owner would despair of retrieving his article if he would know it was lost, but is not yet aware.