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    Bava Metzia - All Ten Chapters

    The complete Gemara text of the tractate, 2a to 119a, word for word and divided by Shakla v'Tarya, with an analytical explanation of every stage, 5 questions per lesson, in-depth sugya lessons and a summary for every chapter. A study framework, not a halachic ruling.

    01

    Chapter 1 · Shenayim Ochazin

    51 lessons
    1. 01
      Daf 2a: Two Holding a Garment: Division, Oaths, and Finding
      30 min
    2. 02
      Two Claims and Unequal Shares
      26 min
    3. 03
      Daf 2b: Finding and Buying: Oaths, Possession, and Disputed Money
      30 min
    4. 04
      Daf 3a: Division, Fraud, and Rabbi Ḥiyya’s Oath
      30 min
    5. 05
      The Mishnah’s Oath as a Safeguard
      26 min
    6. 06
      Daf 3b: An Oath Triggered by Witnesses and the Kal VaChomer
      30 min
    7. 07
      Daf 4a: Partial Testimony, Oaths, and Heilekh
      30 min
    8. 08
      Daf 4b: Heilakh, Documents, and Oaths Concerning Land
      30 min
    9. 09
      Daf 5a: Heilekh, Witness Testimony, and the Disqualified Defendant
      30 min
    10. 10
      Daf 5b: The Garment Oath: Monetary Suspicion and Oath Credibility
      30 min
    11. 11
      Daf 6a: Suspicion and Oaths, Seizing a Garment, and Consecration
      30 min
    12. 12
      Daf 6b: Disputed Consecration, Priestly Seizure, and a Potentially Complete Count
      30 min
    13. 13
      Daf 7a: Doubt, Consecration, and Possession: From Garment to Document
      31 min
    14. 14
      Actual Grip and the Remaining Fabric
      26 min
    15. 15
      Daf 7b: A Found Document: Repayment, Ketubah, and Dividing Value
      30 min
    16. 16
      Daf 8a: Dividing Value, Joint Lifting, and Acquisition for Another
      34 min
    17. 17
      Daf 8b: Riding and Leading: Acquisition, Delivery, and Competition
      30 min
    18. 18
      Daf 9a: Riding, Leading, and Acquiring the Reins
      30 min
    19. 19
      Daf 9b: Riding, a Moving Courtyard, and Acquiring for Another
      30 min
    20. 20
      Daf 10a: Acquiring for Another, a Worker’s Hand, and Four Cubits
      30 min
    21. 21
      Falling on a Find and Four Cubits
      26 min
    22. 22
      Lifting for Another and Acquisition Intent
      26 min
    23. 23
      Daf 10b: Four Cubits, a Minor’s Courtyard, and Agency for Transgression
      32 min
    24. 24
      Daf 11a: Acquisition by a Courtyard: Minors, Safeguarding, and Forgotten Sheaves
      30 min
    25. 25
      A Guarded Courtyard and Owner Presence
      26 min
    26. 26
      Daf 11b: Courtyard Acquisition, Agav, and an Intentional Giver
      30 min
    27. 27
      Daf 12a: Courtyard Acquisition, Household Finds, and a Minor’s Acquisition
      30 min
    28. 28
      Daf 12b: Rights to Finds and Returning Loan Documents
      30 min
    29. 29
      A Found Debt Note and Purchasers
      26 min
    30. 30
      Daf 13a: When Liens Begin and Lost Loan Documents
      30 min
    31. 31
      Daf 13b: A Found Debt Document: Liability, Repayment, and Collusion
      30 min
    32. 32
      Daf 14a: Repayment Concerns, Warranty, and the Seller’s Standing
      30 min
    33. 33
      Omitted Warranty in Loan and Sale
      26 min
    34. 34
      Daf 14b: Seller Liability, Improvements, and Produce
      30 min
    35. 35
      Daf 15a: Warranty, Enhancement, and Produce in Theft and Debt Collection
      31 min
    36. 36
      Daf 15b: Land Improvements, Payment Intent, and the Seller’s Responsibility
      30 min
    37. 37
      Daf 16a: The Seller’s Credibility, the Buyer’s Acquisition, and Future Property
      30 min
    38. 38
      Daf 16b: Future Transfers, Found Documents, and Repayment
      30 min
    39. 39
      Authentication and Repayment
      26 min
    40. 40
      Daf 17a: Credibility, Established Denial, and Returning Documents
      39 min
    41. 41
      Daf 17b: Judicial Obligations, Ketubah Collection, and Widowhood after Betrothal
      30 min
    42. 42
      Daf 18a: Ketubah, Payment Claims, and Identifying a Found Get
      30 min
    43. 43
      A Found Get: Writing and Delivery
      26 min
    44. 44
      Daf 18b: Identifying a Found Get, Duplicate Identities, and Identifying Marks
      30 min
    45. 45
      Daf 19a: Returning Documents, Delivery Dates, and Purchasers’ Rights
      32 min
    46. 46
      Daf 19b: Returning Gift Deeds and a Ketubah Receipt: Revocation, Priority, and Collusion
      30 min
    47. 47
      Daf 20a: Ketubah Receipts, Returning Documents, and Court Records
      30 min
    48. 48
      A Bundle of Documents and Careful Inference
      26 min
    49. 49
      Daf 20b: Identifying Documents, Bundles, and Receipts
      30 min
    50. 50
      Daf 21a: Receipts, Confirming Witnesses, and the Trusted Custodian
      30 min
    51. 51
      A Receipt and Its Custody
      26 min
    02

    Chapter 2 · Elu Metziot

    58 lessons
    1. 52
      Daf 21a: Found Objects, Identifying Marks, and Abandonment at the Threshing Floor
      30 min
    2. 53
      Opening Elu Metziot: The Mishnah’s Lists
      22 min
    3. 54
      Scattered Produce and Collection Effort
      22 min
    4. 55
      Chavruta Review: Facts and Conditions
      22 min
    5. 56
      Daf 21b: Unknowing Despair: Awareness, Identifying Marks, and Evidence
      30 min
    6. 57
      Despair Without Awareness: Abaye and Rava
      22 min
    7. 58
      Coins: Owner Awareness and Location
      22 min
    8. 59
      Reading Rashi: Matching Opening Words
      22 min
    9. 60
      Reading Tosafot: Challenge and Resolution
      22 min
    10. 61
      Daf 22a: Unknowing Despair, Agency, and Evidence of Consent
      30 min
    11. 62
      Daf 22b: Unknowing Despair, Identifying Marks, and Location
      30 min
    12. 63
      Windfallen Dates and Owner Circumstances
      22 min
    13. 64
      Location as a Mark: Rabbah and Rava
      22 min
    14. 65
      Comparing Rishonim: A Verified Baseline
      22 min
    15. 66
      From Gemara to a Rambam Comparison
      22 min
    16. 67
      Daf 23a: Trampling-Prone Marks, Accidental Marks, and Despair
      35 min
    17. 68
      Daf 23b: Identifying Marks, Location, and Visual Recognition
      32 min
    18. 69
      Identifying Marks, Measures and Number
      22 min
    19. 70
      Comparing Commentaries: Ran and Nimukei Yosef
      22 min
    20. 71
      Daf 24a: Recognition, Trustworthiness, and Despair in Public Places
      31 min
    21. 72
      Majority and a Tur–Shulchan Arukh Study Map
      22 min
    22. 73
      Daf 24b: Lost Property in Public: Majority, Despair, and Identifying Marks
      34 min
    23. 74
      Daf 25a: Containers, Identifying Marks, and Coin Arrangements
      30 min
    24. 75
      Daf 25b: Coin Identification, Uncertain Placement, and Finds in Refuse and Walls
      30 min
    25. 76
      Uncertain Placement Is Not Abandonment
      22 min
    26. 77
      Daf 26a: Finds in Walls, the Last Occupant, and Despair in an Inn
      30 min
    27. 78
      Daf 26b: Despair, the Finder’s Intent, and Money in Commercial Spaces
      30 min
    28. 79
      A Fallen Coin: Timing and Intention
      22 min
    29. 80
      Integrative Reading Before Ramban
      22 min
    30. 81
      Daf 27a: Identifying Marks, Lost-Property Derivations, and Perutah Value
      33 min
    31. 82
      Mapping Elu Metziot: 21a–33b
      22 min
    32. 83
      Which Is Lost: Less Than a Perutah
      22 min
    33. 84
      Structured Writing Before Ritva
      22 min
    34. 85
      General and Specific Before Meiri
      22 min
    35. 86
      Study Questions on Contemporary Finds
      22 min
    36. 87
      Source-Based Personal Writing
      22 min
    37. 88
      Review Summary and Further Study
      22 min
    38. 89
      The Garment as a Textual Model
      26 min
    39. 90
      Daf 27b: Identifying Marks: Authority, Identification, and Consent
      32 min
    40. 91
      Daf 28a: The Force of Identifying Marks and the Limits of Announcement
      36 min
    41. 92
      Identifying Marks and Competing Evidence
      26 min
    42. 93
      Daf 28b: Announcing Finds, Verifying Claims, and Preserving Value
      42 min
    43. 94
      Announcement and Credible Claimants
      26 min
    44. 95
      Daf 29a: Guarding Lost Property, Permission to Use, and “Therefore”
      30 min
    45. 96
      Daf 29b: Caring for Lost Property, Using Scrolls, and Protecting Wealth
      44 min
    46. 97
      Preserving the Value of a Find
      26 min
    47. 98
      Daf 30a: Caring for Lost Property, Beneficial Use, and Limits of Return
      30 min
    48. 99
      Daf 30b: Dignity, Going Beyond the Law, and Identifying Lost Property
      36 min
    49. 100
      Lost Earnings, Dignity and Obligation
      26 min
    50. 101
      Daf 31a: Identifying Loss, Expanding Return, and Distinguishing Duties of Assistance
      43 min
    51. 102
      Repeated Return and a Secure Destination
      26 min
    52. 103
      Daf 31b: Repeated Language, the Scope of Obligations, and Compensation for Returning Lost Property
      30 min
    53. 104
      Daf 32a: Courts, Returning Lost Property, and Unloading and Loading
      38 min
    54. 105
      Unloading and Loading: Cooperation and Payment
      26 min
    55. 106
      Daf 32b: Animal Suffering: The Basis of Obligation and Priorities
      32 min
    56. 107
      Daf 33a: Animal Suffering, Priorities, and Honoring One’s Teacher
      36 min
    57. 108
      Father, Teacher and the Chapter's Closing Charge
      26 min
    58. 109
      Daf 33b: Mishnah and Talmud: Responsibility in Learning and Israel’s Hope
      30 min
    03

    Chapter 3 · HaMafkid

    30 lessons
    1. 110
      Daf 33b: Deposits: Acquiring Double Payment and Future Rights
      30 min
    2. 111
      The guardian’s payment and the thief’s penalty
      26 min
    3. 112
      Daf 34a: Acquiring Kefel, Commitment, and Payment
      30 min
    4. 113
      How a future penalty can reach the guardian
      26 min
    5. 114
      A promise to pay and different guardians
      26 min
    6. 115
      Daf 34b: Transfer of Kefel and the Oaths of Custodians and Lenders
      30 min
    7. 116
      Daf 35a: Oaths over Collateral, a Guardian’s Liability, and Returning Assessed Land
      30 min
    8. 117
      Daf 35b: Land Collection, Produce, and Payments between Hirers and Borrowers
      30 min
    9. 118
      Daf 36a: Custodians’ Oaths and Transferring Custody
      30 min
    10. 119
      Daf 36b: Transferred Custody, Causation of Death, and the Borrower’s Payment
      30 min
    11. 120
      Negligence followed by an unavoidable event
      26 min
    12. 121
      Daf 37a: A Guardian’s Double Payment, Uncertain Ownership, and Restitution
      34 min
    13. 122
      Competing claims to deposited money
      26 min
    14. 123
      Daf 37b: Uncertain Theft, Monetary Possession, and a Guardian’s Responsibility
      30 min
    15. 124
      Daf 38a: Deteriorating Deposits, Terumah, and the Limits of Sale
      31 min
    16. 125
      Spoiling produce and ordinary shrinkage
      26 min
    17. 126
      Daf 38b: Protecting Deposits and Managing an Absentee’s Property
      34 min
    18. 127
      Daf 39a: Absentees’ Property, Sharecropper Compensation, and Protecting Minors
      30 min
    19. 128
      Daf 39b: Protecting a Minor’s Property, Uncertain Inheritance, and Evidence Between Brothers
      30 min
    20. 129
      Daf 40a: Improvements to Brothers’ Property and Losses in Deposits
      35 min
    21. 130
      Daf 40b: Profit, Oil Sediment, and Liability for a Barrel
      32 min
    22. 131
      Daf 41a: Returning a Deposit and Misappropriation
      30 min
    23. 132
      Daf 41b: Misappropriation: Loss, Kal VaChomer, and the Custodian’s Oath
      30 min
    24. 133
      Daf 42a: Guarding Money: Concealment, Blessing, and Liability
      32 min
    25. 134
      Proper safekeeping and handing a deposit onward
      26 min
    26. 135
      Daf 42b: Custody, Delegated Responsibility, and Benefit from Another’s Property
      30 min
    27. 136
      Daf 43a: Permission to Use, Liability, and Valuation
      30 min
    28. 137
      Daf 43b: Misappropriation: Appreciation, Valuation, and the Act Creating Liability
      30 min
    29. 138
      Misappropriation: intention, action, and liability
      26 min
    30. 139
      Daf 44a: Intent, Misappropriation, and Liability for the Whole Deposit
      30 min
    04

    Chapter 4 · HaZahav

    44 lessons
    1. 140
      Daf 44a: Gold and Silver: Acquisition, Retraction, and Currency
      30 min
    2. 141
      Gold and silver: currency versus merchandise
      26 min
    3. 142
      Payment is not drawing goods into possession
      26 min
    4. 143
      Daf 44b: Money and Commodities: Gold, Silver, and Copper in Acquisition, Loans, and Second Tithe
      30 min
    5. 144
      Daf 45a: The Gold Dinar: Loans, Redemption, and Second Money
      30 min
    6. 145
      Daf 45b: Redeeming Second Tithe and Coins in Exchange Acquisition
      30 min
    7. 146
      Daf 46a: Coins and Chalipin: Maaser Sheni, Acquisition, and Interest
      30 min
    8. 147
      Daf 46b: Exchange, Monetary Payment, and Invalidated Coins
      30 min
    9. 148
      Daf 47a: Exchange, Overreaching, and the Acquisition Vessel
      36 min
    10. 149
      Daf 47b: Exchange, Unminted Money, and Payment versus Meshikhah
      34 min
    11. 150
      Why drawing goods into possession matters
      26 min
    12. 151
      Daf 48a: Mi Shepara, Meshikhah, and Evidence from Me‘ilah
      30 min
    13. 152
      Daf 48b: Mi Shepara, Deposits, and Collateral
      30 min
    14. 153
      Mi shepara and responsibility for one’s word
      26 min
    15. 154
      Daf 49a: Collateral, Keeping One’s Word, and Withdrawal from a Sale
      41 min
    16. 155
      Daf 49b: Custody, Meshikhah, and the Measure of Ona’ah
      34 min
    17. 156
      Onaah: calculating the relevant fraction
      26 min
    18. 157
      Daf 50a: Ona’ah and Waiver: Below One Sixth and the Merchants of Lod
      30 min
    19. 158
      Daf 50b: Ona’ah and Cancellation: Thresholds, Rights, and Time
      30 min
    20. 159
      Onaah: remedies and time to investigate
      26 min
    21. 160
      Daf 51a: Seller and Merchant Ona’ah, Remedies, and Conditions
      46 min
    22. 161
      Daf 51b: Conditions in Ona’ah, Trust-Based Trading, and Deficient Coins
      30 min
    23. 162
      Daf 52a: Coin Ona’ah, Wear, and the Risk of Fraud
      30 min
    24. 163
      Daf 52b: Deficient Coins: Ona’ah, Returns, and Redeeming Ma’aser Sheni
      30 min
    25. 164
      Daf 53a: Nullification of Ma’aser Sheni, Redemption, and Entry into Jerusalem
      30 min
    26. 165
      Daf 53b: Ma’aser Sheni: Walls, a Perutah, and the Added Fifth
      30 min
    27. 166
      Daf 54a: Calculating the Fifth, Redemption, and Payment Rules
      30 min
    28. 167
      Daf 54b: A Fifth upon a Fifth and Original Consecration
      30 min
    29. 168
      Daf 55a: The Added Fifth in Hekdesh and Five Perutah Thresholds
      30 min
    30. 169
      Daf 55b: A Perutah, an Added Fifth, and Rabbinic Authority
      30 min
    31. 170
      Daf 56a: Demai: Redemption, Eating, and Doubt; Exceptions to Ona’ah
      30 min
    32. 171
      Consecrated property and exceptions to onaah
      26 min
    33. 172
      Daf 56b: The Boundaries of Ona’ah and the Status of Sown Wheat
      31 min
    34. 173
      Daf 57a: Seeds, Cancellation of a Sale, and Redemption of Hekdesh
      30 min
    35. 174
      Daf 57b: Ona’ah and Interest in Hekdesh, Double Payment, and Guardians
      30 min
    36. 175
      Daf 58a: Oaths, Wages, and Liability for Consecrated Property
      30 min
    37. 176
      Daf 58b: Sacred Property, the Limits of Ona’ah, and Human Dignity
      33 min
    38. 177
      Verbal oppression and hidden intention
      26 min
    39. 178
      Daf 59a: Verbal Wronging, Honor at Home, and a Segmented Oven
      31 min
    40. 179
      Daf 59b: The Oven of Akhnai, Wronging Others, and Protecting the Convert
      40 min
    41. 180
      The oven of Akhnai: authority and dignity
      26 min
    42. 181
      Daf 60a: Mixtures, Misrepresentation, and Commercial Competition
      30 min
    43. 182
      Honest trade, disclosure, and trustworthy measurement
      26 min
    44. 183
      Daf 60b: Price, Appearance, and Deception — Concluding HaZahav
      30 min
    05

    Chapter 5 · Eizehu Neshekh

    41 lessons
    1. 184
      Daf 60b: Neshekh and Tarbit: Loans, Trade, and Two Prohibitions
      30 min
    2. 185
      An Agreed Addition to a Loan
      26 min
    3. 186
      Daf 61a: Interest: Scriptural Sources and Its Relationship to Robbery and Ona’ah
      30 min
    4. 187
      Daf 61b: Financial Prohibitions, the Exodus, and Returning Interest
      33 min
    5. 188
      Fixed Interest and Rabbinic Interest
      26 min
    6. 189
      Daf 62a: Returning Interest, Stipulating Interest, and Rav Safra’s Rule
      30 min
    7. 190
      Daf 62b: Interest, Produce Contracts, and Disguised Interest
      30 min
    8. 191
      Daf 63a: Converting Debt into Produce and Contingent Interest
      30 min
    9. 192
      Daf 63b: Forward Purchases, Payment for Waiting, and Reliance
      30 min
    10. 193
      Daf 64a: Excess Money, Growing Produce, and Risk in a Sale
      30 min
    11. 194
      Daf 64b: Transaction Risk, Lodging, and Slave Labor in a Lending Relationship
      30 min
    12. 195
      Housing Benefits Attached to a Loan
      26 min
    13. 196
      Daf 65a: Returning Interest, Rental, and Credit Sales
      34 min
    14. 197
      Payment Timing in Rental and Sale
      26 min
    15. 198
      Daf 65b: Field Produce, Conditional Acquisition, and Contingent Interest
      30 min
    16. 199
      Daf 66a: Reassuring Words, Conditions, and Asmakhta
      30 min
    17. 200
      Daf 66b: Asmakhta, Designated Security, and Mistaken Waiver
      31 min
    18. 201
      Daf 67a: Mistaken Waiver, Produce, and Land Collateral
      30 min
    19. 202
      Daf 67b: Land Pledges: Interest, Redemption, and Acquisition
      30 min
    20. 203
      Daf 68a: Mortgages, Profit Notes, and the Manager’s Wages
      30 min
    21. 204
      Iska: Profits and Compensation for Labor
      26 min
    22. 205
      Daf 68b: Compensation in an Iska, By-products, and Sharing Loss
      30 min
    23. 206
      Daf 69a: Compensation in an Iska, Raising Animals, and Dividing a Partnership
      30 min
    24. 207
      Daf 69b: Dividing Partnerships, Interest, and Asset Rental
      30 min
    25. 208
      Daf 70a: Rental, Interest, and Protecting Orphans’ Funds
      30 min
    26. 209
      Daf 70b: Guaranteed Livestock, Firstborn Status, and Interest Involving Gentiles
      30 min
    27. 210
      Non-Jewish Lending and Lending Priorities
      26 min
    28. 211
      Daf 71a: Lending Priorities, Interest, and the Legal Status of the Ger
      36 min
    29. 212
      Daf 71b: Interest Guarantees, Agency for a Non-Jew, and Acquisition
      30 min
    30. 213
      Daf 72a: Acquisition, Interest and Conversion, and the Force of Documents
      30 min
    31. 214
      Daf 72b: Valid Documents, Produce Contracts, and Market Prices
      35 min
    32. 215
      Forward Produce Purchases and Market Price
      26 min
    33. 216
      Daf 73a: Trade, Risk, and Payment for Waiting
      30 min
    34. 217
      Daf 73b: Interest, Tax Obligations, and Asmakhta
      30 min
    35. 218
      Daf 74a: Commercial Custom, Agency, and Advance Purchases of Unfinished Goods
      30 min
    36. 219
      Daf 74b: Lower Prices, Mi Shepara, and a Sharecropper’s Seed
      30 min
    37. 220
      Seed Wheat Advanced to Sharecroppers
      26 min
    38. 221
      Daf 75a: Produce Loans, Precision and Gifts, and Labor Exchanges
      30 min
    39. 222
      Produce Loans When Prices Change
      26 min
    40. 223
      Daf 75b: Verbal Interest, Lending Responsibility, and Protecting the Borrower
      30 min
    41. 224
      Responsibility of Witnesses and Intermediaries
      26 min
    06

    Chapter 6 · HaSokher et HaUmanin

    22 lessons
    1. 225
      Daf 75b: Hiring Workers: Grievance, Impending Loss, and Withdrawal
      30 min
    2. 226
      Daf 76a: Hiring Workers: Misrepresentation, Grievance, and Reliance on an Agent
      30 min
    3. 227
      Wage Promises Through an Agent
      26 min
    4. 228
      Daf 76b: Agency, Workers’ Withdrawal, and Idle Pay
      30 min
    5. 229
      Withdrawal from Work and Imminent Loss
      26 min
    6. 230
      Daf 77a: Interrupted Work, Workers’ Withdrawal, and Wage Changes
      30 min
    7. 231
      Daf 77b: Workers’ Withdrawal, Partial Payment, and the Validity of a Sale
      37 min
    8. 232
      Daf 78a: Seller Intent, Workers’ Withdrawal, and Changing a Donkey’s Route
      30 min
    9. 233
      Route Deviation with a Hired Donkey
      26 min
    10. 234
      Daf 78b: Departing from the Owner’s Instructions and Disrupted Donkey Rentals
      33 min
    11. 235
      Daf 79a: Interrupted Rentals and Preserving Capital
      30 min
    12. 236
      Daf 79b: Hiring a Boat or Donkey: Commitments, Effort, and Loads
      30 min
    13. 237
      This Ship and This Wine
      26 min
    14. 238
      Daf 80a: Rental Deviations, Disclosure of Defects, and Load Stress
      30 min
    15. 239
      Daf 80b: Excess Loads, Craftsmen, and Custodial Liability
      30 min
    16. 240
      The Artisan as Guardian and an Invitation to Collect
      26 min
    17. 241
      Daf 81a: Ending Custody, Benefit, and Shemirah Beva’alim
      31 min
    18. 242
      Daf 81b: Owner Participation, Accepting Custody, and Collateral
      30 min
    19. 243
      Daf 82a: Guarding Collateral and Lost Property
      30 min
    20. 244
      Daf 82b: Collateral, Paid Custody, and the Barrel Carrier’s Oath
      30 min
    21. 245
      Daf 83a: Porters’ Oaths, Evidence, and the Path of Goodness
      30 min
    22. 246
      A Broken Barrel and the Porters’ Wages
      26 min
    07

    Chapter 7 · HaSokher et HaPoalim

    30 lessons
    1. 247
      Daf 83a: Hiring Workers: Custom, Meals, and Extra Pay
      30 min
    2. 248
      Local Custom and Employment Terms
      26 min
    3. 249
      Daf 83b: Workers’ Hours, the Righteous’ Reward, and Catching Thieves
      30 min
    4. 250
      Rabbi Elazar: Authority and Criticism
      26 min
    5. 251
      Daf 84a: Beauty, Repentance, and the Power of a Study Partner
      39 min
    6. 252
      Rabbi Yoḥanan and Reish Lakish: The Value of Challenge
      26 min
    7. 253
      Daf 84b: Suffering, Torah Honor, and Humility
      44 min
    8. 254
      Daf 85a: Humility, Compassion, and Building Torah Across Generations
      55 min
    9. 255
      Daf 85b: Honoring Torah, Rabbi Ḥiyya’s Work, and the Power of Prayer
      42 min
    10. 256
      Daf 86a: Torah’s Editors, Rabbah’s Passing, and Workers’ Custom
      34 min
    11. 257
      Daf 86b: Workers’ Meals, Abraham’s Hospitality, and the Angels’ Missions
      48 min
    12. 258
      Avraham's Hospitality
      26 min
    13. 259
      Daf 87a: Hospitality, Peace, and Workers’ Rights
      42 min
    14. 260
      When a Worker May Eat the Produce
      26 min
    15. 261
      Daf 87b: A Worker’s Eating: Sources, Extensions, and Limits
      31 min
    16. 262
      Daf 88a: Fixing Produce for Tithes: House, Courtyard, and Worker
      30 min
    17. 263
      Daf 88b: Establishing Tithe Liability and the Eating Rights of Workers and Oxen
      30 min
    18. 264
      Daf 89a: Workers, Animals, and the Boundaries of Completed Processing
      30 min
    19. 265
      Daf 89b: Workers’ Eating: Preparing Produce, Salt, and Tithe Liability
      30 min
    20. 266
      Daf 90a: Muzzling Sacred Produce, Animal Welfare, and Instructing a Gentile
      30 min
    21. 267
      Daf 90b: Evasion in Castration, the Limits of Muzzling, and Action by Voice
      30 min
    22. 268
      Muzzling Before Threshing
      26 min
    23. 269
      Daf 91a: Speech and Action, Muzzling and Payment, and Crossbreeding
      30 min
    24. 270
      Daf 91b: Animal Breeding, Labor, and a Worker’s Right to Eat
      35 min
    25. 271
      Daf 92a: A Worker’s Right to Eat: Its Extent, Basis, and Transfer
      36 min
    26. 272
      Daf 92b: A Worker’s Eating: Entitlement, Tithes, and Waiver
      30 min
    27. 273
      Daf 93a: Eating Rights, Produce Guards, and the Four Custodians
      37 min
    28. 274
      Four Guardians and Three Liability Patterns
      26 min
    29. 275
      Daf 93b: Enhanced Guarding, Rescue Duties, and Unavoidable Loss
      39 min
    30. 276
      Daf 94a: Guardians’ Liability and the Limits of Conditions
      30 min
    08

    Chapter 8 · HaShoel et HaParah

    25 lessons
    1. 277
      Daf 94a: Borrowing with the Owner: Service and Timing
      30 min
    2. 278
      The Owner in Service: Order of Engagement
      26 min
    3. 279
      Daf 94b: Borrowing with the Owner and the Sources of Custodian Liability
      33 min
    4. 280
      Daf 95a: Borrower Liability, Owner-Service Exemption, and Negligence
      30 min
    5. 281
      Daf 95b: Borrowing with the Owner: Guardian Status, Work, and Decisive Timing
      33 min
    6. 282
      Daf 96a: When Borrowing Begins, What Counts as Borrowing, and Who Counts as the Owner
      36 min
    7. 283
      When the Owner Must Be in Service
      26 min
    8. 284
      Daf 96b: A Husband’s Status, Me’ilah, and Death Caused by Work
      30 min
    9. 285
      Daf 97a: Borrowing Losses, Owner Participation, and Uncertain Liability
      30 min
    10. 286
      Daf 97b: Certainty, Uncertainty, Possession, and an Oath Obligation
      30 min
    11. 287
      Uncertainty Between Borrowing and Renting
      26 min
    12. 288
      Daf 98a: Oaths, Uncertainty, and Payment
      30 min
    13. 289
      Daf 98b: Oaths, Doubt, Continuity of Owner Participation, and Liability in Transit
      30 min
    14. 290
      Daf 99a: When Borrowing Liability and Borrowing Rights Begin
      30 min
    15. 291
      Acquisition by Guardians and Retraction
      26 min
    16. 292
      Daf 99b: Acquiring a Lease, Valuing Compensation, and Hekdesh
      30 min
    17. 293
      Daf 100a: Uncertain Ownership, Sumchos, and the Seller’s Oath
      30 min
    18. 294
      Who Owns the Offspring in Doubt?
      26 min
    19. 295
      Daf 100b: The Limits of Oaths and Sharing Olive Produce
      37 min
    20. 296
      Daf 101a: Swept-Away Olive Trees, Ancestral Land, and Unauthorized Improvements
      34 min
    21. 297
      Daf 101b: Removing Plantings, Notice to Vacate, and Housing Duties
      36 min
    22. 298
      House Rental: Notice and Repairs
      26 min
    23. 299
      Daf 102a: Mezuzah, Acquisition through a Courtyard, and Leap-Year Rentals
      36 min
    24. 300
      Daf 102b: Rental Language, Possession, and Proof of Payment
      30 min
    25. 301
      Daf 103a: Evidence, the Scope of Borrowing, and a Replacement House
      30 min
    09

    Chapter 9 · HaMekabel Sadeh MeChavero

    35 lessons
    1. 302
      Daf 103a: Local Custom and Dividing the Field’s Yield
      30 min
    2. 303
      Field Agreements and Working Custom
      26 min
    3. 304
      Daf 103b: Custom, Contract Terms, and Responsibility in the Field
      30 min
    4. 305
      Daf 104a: Lease Terms, Unworked Fields, and Everyday Contract Language
      30 min
    5. 306
      Leaving a Field Idle and Contract Language
      26 min
    6. 307
      Daf 104b: Contractual Language, Asmakhta, and Sharing Business Returns
      30 min
    7. 308
      Daf 105a: Investment Ventures, Field Responsibilities, and Crop Thresholds
      30 min
    8. 309
      Daf 105b: Strength, Burdens, Agricultural Measures, and Regional Disaster
      30 min
    9. 310
      Regional Calamity and Local Loss
      26 min
    10. 311
      Daf 106a: Regional Calamity: Rent Reduction, Crop Years, and Claims of Miraculous Rescue
      34 min
    11. 312
      Daf 106b: Replanting, Crop Damage, and Changing the Agreement
      32 min
    12. 313
      Changing the Agreed Crop
      26 min
    13. 314
      Daf 107a: Changing Crops, Field Boundaries, and Life’s Blessings
      30 min
    14. 315
      Daf 107b: Illness, Morning Bread, Land Measurement, and River Access
      32 min
    15. 316
      Daf 108a: Public Needs and the Adjoining Owner’s Right
      30 min
    16. 317
      The Adjoining Landowner and Fair Dealing
      26 min
    17. 318
      Daf 108b: The Limits of Neighboring Owners’ Rights and Orders of Priority
      30 min
    18. 319
      Daf 109a: Field Improvements, Planters’ Rights, and Asmakhta
      34 min
    19. 320
      Cultivation Term and Improvements
      26 min
    20. 321
      Daf 109b: A Departing Planter, Division of Appreciation, and Principal versus Produce
      30 min
    21. 322
      Daf 110a: Principal and Produce, Possession and Migo
      30 min
    22. 323
      Daf 110b: Land Improvements, Lease Years, and Wage Deadlines
      32 min
    23. 324
      When Wages Must Be Paid
      26 min
    24. 325
      Daf 111a: Wage Deadlines, Withholding and Robbery, and the Scope of Payment Duties
      39 min
    25. 326
      Daf 111b: The Scope of Wage Protection and Scriptural Interpretation
      34 min
    26. 327
      Daf 112a: The Worker’s Life, Redirected Payment, and Contract Work
      30 min
    27. 328
      Daf 112b: The Worker’s Oath: The Enactment and Its Limits
      30 min
    28. 329
      Daf 113a: Wage Presumptions and the Limits of Taking Collateral
      30 min
    29. 330
      Debt Collection and Protection of Collateral
      26 min
    30. 331
      Daf 113b: Limits on Collateral, Debtor Allowances, and Human Dignity
      36 min
    31. 332
      Daf 114a: Reserving Essentials, Sacred Debts, and Returning Collateral
      30 min
    32. 333
      Daf 114b: Elijah, Collateral, and Its Return
      30 min
    33. 334
      Daf 115a: Limits on Collateral, Reasons for Verses, and Food-Preparation Tools
      30 min
    34. 335
      Daf 115b: Food-Preparation Implements as Collateral and Inclusive Prohibitions
      30 min
    35. 336
      Daf 116a: Food-Preparation Tools, Multiple Liabilities, and Possession as Evidence
      30 min
    10

    Chapter 10 · HaBayit veHaAliyah

    9 lessons
    1. 337
      Daf 116b: Dividing Rubble, Oaths, and Housing Rights
      30 min
    2. 338
      A Collapsed House with Separate Storeys
      26 min
    3. 339
      Daf 117a: Substitute Housing, Water Damage, and Rebuilding
      31 min
    4. 340
      Daf 117b: Benefit from Property, Shared Rebuilding, and Liability
      30 min
    5. 341
      A Collapsed Garden Support and a Fallen Tree
      26 min
    6. 342
      Daf 118a: Repairs, Workers’ Wages, and Acquiring Ownerless Property
      39 min
    7. 343
      Daf 118b: Public Space, Building Liability, and Ownership of Vegetables
      32 min
    8. 344
      Two Gardens and the Tractate's Conclusion
      26 min
    9. 345
      Daf 119a: Orlah, the Limits of Reach, and the Close of Bava Metzia
      30 min
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