Talking Talmud

Rav Huna and Rav Yosef disagree over different types of chazakah of usage. Abaye teaches how to built houses next to a public domain and still maintain privacy.

The case of an inner all and an outer wall - can one party induce the other the participate in payment for fencing just by virtue of putting them up - a court case between Ravina and Ronya. Also, a new mishnah! On the obligation when a courtyard wall collapses and neighbors all need to pay in to construct a new wall, of at least 4 amot high. Always, the one who claims he has contributed needs to prove it. The Gemara introduces a time factor - when the debt comes due.

How Herod became king, how Bava ben Buta advised him, and how even Herod's evil had an after-the-fact silver lining of Herod's beautiful Temple. Plus, what it means to not give in to evil. In the context of the sanctity of the physical place of a synagogue. Also, a new mishnah! When one neighbor puts up a partition without the neighbor's agreement - is the second party obligated to participate in the costs in any way? It depends on his actions, especially with regard to a fourth wall... (and according to which sage).

The daf explains the terms gvil and gazit and what they mean halakhically. What’s an amah traksin and did it exist in the second Temple. Rav Chisda explains when one can tear down an old beit knesset to build a new one.

A new Masechet! What happens if two people jointly own a courtyard and one if them wants a wall built? A lengthy discussion on the daf if sight can cause damage.

A last mishnah! On divided properties, including gardens, when one is above the other - who owns the produce? Unusually, the mishnah explains the rationale of the disputants' different views here, and the garden's nourishment from above. Also: one who can reach out one's hand to take produce is allowed to take the produce, but what if he can only reach the roots or only the leaves? Plus, the Persian king Shapur, who likes R. Shimon's approach (he seems to have liked Jewish law... might he have been Shmuel?).

The daf opens with mishnah that discussed when a change in wages is allowed. A second mishnah lists different types of items that can damage a Reshut HaRabim and who is responsible for thise damages

More on the upstairs/downstairs neighbors, who share maintenance and the like. Including issues of when a tenant would move in with the landlord (or in place of him). What terms can be presumed to remain in place when issues crop up? Plus, a new mishnah about such a building collapsing and what happens when only the upper owner wants to rebuild. And Rabbi Yehudah's 3 examples of not taking advantage of another party's monetary goods.

The daf finishes the ninth chapter of Bava Metzeia with a disagreement between Abaye and Rava about a slaughtering knife. The tenth chapter discusses properties where one is house is on top of the other and what are the halakhic implications of this type of arrangement.

The daf contains two mishnahs which contain halakhot about securities and when one may not take a security