Daf Yomi

Bava Batra 164 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-06 Text and/or signatures written on erased parchment. A tied document is postdated by one year. Three sins from which no person is saved every day: thoughts of sin, examining one’s prayer and lashon hara.

Bava Batra 163 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-05 Defining the exact measurement of the two lines that would disqualify a document. A gap between the witnesses signatures and the court's certification. A document whose text and signatures are on a single line.

Bava Batra 162 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-04 The basic elements of the document are repeated in the last line. A document with a line and a half of empty space. Using disqualified witnesses to fill up space in a document.

Bava Batra 161 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-03 Where do witnesses sign on a tied document? Various mechanisms to prevent forgery. What is a minimally acceptable signature of a witness?

Bava Batra 160 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-02 A normal document vs a tied document. How many witnesses sign and where they sign. Source of these documents in the Torah.

Bava Batra 159 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-12-01 One can inherit his grandfather directly, not through his father. Relatives cannot testify because of a decree not because they aren't trusted. A son doesn't inherit from him mother in the grave.

Bava Batra 158 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-30 The house collapsed on someone and his wife, killing them. Different properties - the ketubah and tzon-barzel and melog property. The house collapsed on someone and his (unmarried) mother, killing them.

Bava Batra 157 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-29 The house collapsed on someone and his father (or anyone he inherits), and there was a kesubah or debt against the son’s assets. If a borrower writes in the document that he mortgages “whatever properties I will acquire,” and he later acquired property- is it effective? If we say it is and one borrowed from two people, and then purchased property is there a precedence?

Bava Batra 156 :Marc Chipkin : 2024-11 -28 Different ages and their halachic significance. A daughter receiving an expensive brooch. Kinyan "agav"....

Bava Batra 155 : Marc Chipkin : 2024-11-27 What is the minimum age to sell inherited property? Testimony of someone too young to sell property- we consider their general wisdom.