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Can you buy or refuse to sell the air rights and/or subterranean rights to your property? Can you buy "futures"? Well these are the questions that are dealt with in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Legalese. Its a problem in English and its also a problem in Aramaic. How do we deal with ambiguous contract language? To what extent do we trust each other?
All in this week's daf:

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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WE BEGIN THE FOURTH CHAPTER! This chapter begins with an investigation into sales and by way of that, an investigation into legal definitions, and the accuracy of legal language, and the question of what really is a house?
All in this week's daf:

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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We are finishing off the third chapter with a BANG! More privacy law, more discussion of impacting ownership, and then are we mourning for the Temple too much? too little?
All in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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More in the Babylonian Talmud's series on "won't you be my neighbor? no you are using my property!" Answering questions like: How much of my property do I not actually control? How much of your property do I have control of? What about privacy rights?
All in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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I'm pretty excited about this week's daf. It is basically stories of R. Bena'ah, a Palestinian Sage, and his encounters with Abraham, and Adam, while marking gravesites. Also bit of a tussle between a dead rabbi and a Magian who wants to move him. And R. Bena'ah again as the Solomonic answerer of riddles. Its all in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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More conspiring witness! More ways of acquisition / or not! The estates of converts! And, finally, Sages leering or not at women doing laundry down at the river. Its all in this week's daf.
This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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More conversation about boundaries - boundaries between spaces, boundaries in intentions, crossing boundaries. We also start on a whole new conversation about conspiratorial witnesses/eidim zomemim.
Its all in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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Dina deMalkhuta Dina. The law of the State [lit. the kingdom] is the law. What are the legal and cultural implications of this law? Is it a law or a general principle? Is this an ideology that is new to the Sassanian/Babylonian context? Or, is this an older trend that is perhaps articulated here for the first time? All this in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

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We continue a conversation about acquiring things. Some stories about how the system runs up against some folks, and how the outcomes are gendered. And we begin a conversation about dina demalkhuta dina / the law of the land or kingdom is the law.
Its all in this week's daf.

This week's daf can be found:
1. Vilna page (Hebrew and Aramaic) from Hebrewbooks.org
2. Hebrew and English from Sefaria.org
3. Hebrew and Aramaic with many commentaries from Alhatorah.org

Please be in touch with any comments, criticisms, or witticisms at [email protected]