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    Tractate Bava Kamma - All 10 Chapters

    50 sugya lessons from 2a to 118a: primary damages, ox, pit and fire, injury and robbery - with a sugya flow and 4 questions per lesson. Not a line-by-line commentary.

    01

    Chapter 1 · Arba'ah Avot

    5 lessons
    1. 01
      Primary Categories and Derivatives in Damages
      25 min
    2. 02
      Speech Damages and Rabbi Chiyya's Classification
      25 min
    3. 03
      Collecting Debts from Purchasers: Simultaneous vs. Sequential Sales
      25 min
    4. 04
      Appraising Remains: Damages, Theft, and Borrowing
      25 min
    5. 05
      Liability in a Partnership Courtyard
      25 min
    02

    Chapter 2 · Keitzad HaRegel

    5 lessons
    1. 06
      Chapter Keitzad HaRegel: Defining Foot Damage, Kicking, and Pebbles
      25 min
    2. 07
      Deviation in Propelled Pebbles: Is There Quarter-Damage?
      25 min
    3. 08
      Dwelling in Another's Courtyard Without Knowledge
      25 min
    4. 09
      Defining Fire Damages: Arrows or Property
      25 min
    5. 10
      The Scope of the 'Dayyo' Principle in Kal VaChomer
      25 min
    03

    Chapter 3 · HaManiach

    5 lessons
    1. 11
      Linguistic Precision: Kad and Chavit in Public Domain Damages
      25 min
    2. 12
      During the Fall vs. After the Fall: The Twin Axioms of Public Obstacles
      25 min
    3. 13
      Confiscating the Nuisance: Rav and Ze'iri on Rabbinic Penalties
      25 min
    4. 14
      Disaster in the Workshop: Exile and Bodily Damage
      25 min
    5. 15
      Dividing the Live Ox and the Carcass: Rabbi Meir vs. Rabbi Yehuda
      25 min
    04

    Chapter 4 · Shor SheNagach Arba'ah VaChamishah

    5 lessons
    1. 16
      An Ox Goring Successive Oxen: The Last Claimant Takes Precedence
      25 min
    2. 17
      Bava Kamma 38a: Damages Between an Israelite and a Non-Jew
      25 min
    3. 18
      The Nature of Kofer: Monetary Restitution or Spiritual Atonement
      25 min
    4. 19
      An Ox That Gored a Pregnant Woman: Exemption from Fetal Payment
      25 min
    5. 20
      An Ox That Killed Unintentionally: Rav and Shmuel on Kofer and Stoning
      25 min
    05

    Chapter 5 · Shor SheNagach et HaParah

    5 lessons
    1. 21
      Monetary Doubt: Splitting vs. Burden of Proof
      25 min
    2. 22
      Damages of a Pit Dug by an Ox in Another's Courtyard
      25 min
    3. 23
      Pits in Private and Public Domains: Defining 'Owner of the Pit'
      25 min
    4. 24
      Transfer of Liability for a Pit: When is the First User Exempt?
      25 min
    5. 25
      Joint Liability in Torts: The Position of Rabbi Natan
      25 min
    06

    Chapter 6 · HaKones

    5 lessons
    1. 26
      Guarding Standards for Tooth and Foot Damage
      25 min
    2. 27
      The Status of a Finder and Returning Without the Owner's Knowledge
      25 min
    3. 28
      Assessing Agricultural Damages: Valuation in Sixty
      25 min
    4. 29
      Transmitting Fire via Incompetents: Coal vs. Flame
      25 min
    5. 30
      Boundaries that Halt Fire: Fence Height
      25 min
    07

    Chapter 7 · Merubbeh

    5 lessons
    1. 31
      The Scope of Double Payment: General and Specific Hermeneutics
      25 min
    2. 32
      Acquisition of Stolen Property via Change of Name
      25 min
    3. 33
      Selling on Shabbat and Fourfold Restitution
      25 min
    4. 34
      Admitting to a Fine Before Witnesses Arrive
      25 min
    5. 35
      Meshikha for Bailees: When Does Custodial Liability Begin?
      25 min
    08

    Chapter 8 · HaChovel

    5 lessons
    1. 36
      Bava Kamma 83b: An Eye for an Eye Means Money
      25 min
    2. 37
      Calculating Loss of Work: Preventing Double Compensation in Torts
      25 min
    3. 38
      Injury Compensation to Children: Dependent vs. Independent Offspring
      25 min
    4. 39
      The Status of Contingent Rights (Tovat Hana'ah)
      25 min
    5. 40
      Assessing the Damaging Implement: Is There an Estimate for Injuries?
      25 min
    09

    Chapter 9 · HaGozel Etzim

    5 lessons
    1. 41
      Acquisition by Alteration: Reversible vs. Irreversible Change
      25 min
    2. 42
      Defining Damage to Stolen Currency: Cracked vs. Disqualified
      25 min
    3. 43
      Deviation and Damage in a Craftsman's Work (Bava Kamma 100b)
      25 min
    4. 44
      Status of an Agent Appointed Before Witnesses
      25 min
    5. 45
      Misappropriation in a False Claim of Theft
      25 min
    10

    Chapter 10 · HaGozel Batra

    5 lessons
    1. 46
      Inherited Stolen Property: Heir Liability and Owner Despair
      25 min
    2. 47
      Dina D'Malkhuta Dina and Customs Collectors
      25 min
    3. 48
      Identifying Stolen Goods and Protecting the Purchaser
      25 min
    4. 49
      Stolen Land Seized by Extortionists: Robber's Liability and Informing
      25 min
    5. 50
      Claim of "You Owe Me a Maneh" and the Plea of "I Do Not Know"
      25 min
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