Daf Shvui/Weekly Daf: Give me forty minutes or so and I'll give you a daf or so

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Conflicts of interest, defaults on loans, shady real estate deal. This is what's happening this week when we study Shmuel's statement as a mishnah! It's all so exciting!
So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet.

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]

Shanah tovah, g'mar tov, and an easy and meaningful fast to those who are fasting.

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This has been some week even in a year in which every week seems to have lasted a few months. Whew! Lets learn some Torah in the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Breonna Taylor.
So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet.

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]

Shanah tovah, g'mar tov, and an easy and meaningful fast to those who are fasting.

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Four stories of ownership, claims of ownership, false claims of ownership, and disputed property. Narratives about the narrative of owning. All in this week's daf.
So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet.

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]

Shanah tovah. Happy Jewish New Year/.

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Rava teaches R. Nahman's Torah. (How) Can one be forced to sell something? How might one undermine a contract written under duress? Two stories: one about a buyer behaving badly; one about a demanding lover and jilted adult son. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet.

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]

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Continuing our discussion of hazakha/ownership. We digress into the difference between wronging and crime. Property ownership as a communicative act. Its all here in this week's daf. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet.

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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Land, territory, and claims of ownership. Presence, distance, and the commutative principle of Jewish communication. These are all in the introductory sugyot to the second mishnah in the third chapter which we start this week. So, pull up a chair, grab a beverage, and join us in the bet midrash in the closet.

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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Let's say you buy the trees but not the land that they are planted in. Lets say someone else buys that land without the tree. When you sell, is the legal assumpltion that you are intending to sell generously or stingily? What does that mean? Come and join us as we continue to figure out what it means to own property.

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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This week's daf exists under the shadow of slavery and slave owning. What did the rabbis have to say about owning slaves? Why didn't they say different things? More things? And how do we move ahead with studying this material without resolving these issues? Important questions. Join us for the journey.

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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What is the extent of judicial discretion when there is little alternative? What are the drawbacks of compromise? We ask some final questions about cases where there seems to be equal evidence on both sides. Then we start looking at the mishnah and presumptive ownership all over again.
Please grab your favorite Tu b'Av beverage and join us!

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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This week we finish Raba's casebook and ask: What was that? Also, the one who is stronger wins? Not what you usually hear in those pearls of Judaism classes… In any event, this week's daf is totally worth it. So, grab your favorite Shabbat Nahamu beverage, kick back and join us in the daf shvui bet midrash.

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