Daf Yomi

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.