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Bava Metzia 37: The Thief Who Admits He Stole

A new mishnah! When a thief acknowledges the theft, but he's not sure from whom. Likewise, a...

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• 20 días

Bava Metzia 36: When a Guardian Hands Off to Another Guardian

When a guardian transfers the item he's watching to another guardian, without the knowledge or...

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• 21 días

Bava Metzia 35: Of Jewels and Cows and Land Transactions

The guardian who has lost something left in his protection can take an oath or pay back the value...

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• 22 días

Bava Metzia 34: HaMafkid

The third perek of Bava Metzia is a classic yeshiva perek of HaMafkid. The perek deals laws of...

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• 23 días

Bava Metzia 33: Your Father, Your Teacher

A mishnah asks whose lost item is more important for one to return - your father or your teacher....

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• 24 días

Bava Kamma 32: The Ban on Animals' Suffering

If one finds an animal's in a barn... when is one obligated to return it to the owner of the...

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• 25 días

Bava Metzia 31: You Can Say That Again

When you've returned a lost animal, and the animal runs away again, and you find it again, you...

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• 26 días

Bava Metzia 30: Taking Care with Others' Stuff

Found items of different materials - silver, copper, wood, and so on - can be used by the finder...

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• 27 días

Bava Metzia 29: Lost Tefillin and More

A dispute between Rabbi Tarfon and Rabbi Akiva, about whether one can use the funds from the sale...

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• 28 días

Bava Metzia 28: Lost & Found

More on distinguishing marks - and whether they are a Torah requirement or a rabbinic one. Also,...

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• 29 días

Bava Metzia 27: Returning Lost Objects Is a Mitzvah (But Not Quite Always)

The biblical text for the requirements of returning lost objects, including which objects require...

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• 30 días

Bava Metzia 26: A Few Considerations

The daf has a few mishnahs dealing with a few halachot around lost objects? Does the location...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 25: Dropped Coins

A new mishnah - with a list of when a finder has to proclaim and declare the found item(s), so...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 24: Be Nice and Give It Back

A story about Mar Zutra the Pious, when a silver cup was stolen, and Mar Zutra finds the guilty...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 23: Incidental Simanim

The daf discusses objects found that may or may not have a purposeful siman.

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 22: Hospitality

Several sages were in an orchard, and a worker there gave them samples of fruit, but Mar Zutra...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 21: Yaush and Siman

The daf begins the second perek of the masechet which starts with a mishnah discussing lost...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 20: Lost & Found: The Documents Edition

A new mishnah, still on returning lost documents. Beginning with letters that attest to a...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metiza 19: What is the Norm?

The daf describes a variety of scenarios where documents are found and the different types of...

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• 1 mes

Bava Metzia 18: Lost (and Found) Documents

A new mishnah! One who finds documents - bills of divorce, papers that free slaves, receipts,...

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• 1 mes