All Episodes

Hullin 108: The Flavor of Milk

Hullin 107: Cleanliness vs. Ritual: Handwashing

Hullin 106: How Ritual Handwashing Protects

Hullin 105: Cheese before Meat

Hullin 104: No Meat and Milk

Hullin 103: Already Eaten Food

Hullin 102: The Noahides and a Limb from a Live Animal

Hullin 101: The Torah Is Not in Pieces

Hullin 100: The Sciatic Nerve, Before Sinai

Hullin 99: The Taste of the Gid HaNasheh (or lack thereof)

Hullin 98: Counting Eggs

Hullin 97: A Non-Jewish Chef, a Cow's Udder, and 1/60th of Food

Hullin 96: The Flavor of the Sciatic Nerve

Hullin 95: Keeping Kosher

Hullin 94: False Pretenses and a Town of Kosher Meat

Hullin 93: Trustworthy Butchers

Hullin 92: The Righteous Who Uphold the World

Hullin 91: Wrestling with the Angel

Hullin 90: The Very Large Pile of 300 Kor of Ash on the Altar

Hullin 89: The Beautiful Blue of the Heavens and the Sea

Hullin 88: Ecological Benefits of Covering the Blood

Hullin 87: A Family of Heretics

Hullin 86: Taking Responsibility for Shechitah

Hullin 85: Mitigating Factors to Covering the Blood

Hullin 84: Don't Eat Too Much Meat

Hullin 83: Covering the Blood

Hullin 82: Who's Tracking the Animals and Their Offspring?

Hullin 81: Shechitah That Isn't Shechitah

Hullin 80: When Lashes Are Applied

Hullin 79: Horses and Donkeys and Mules - Oh Koy!

Hullin 78: The Mamas, Maybe the Papas, and the Children

Hullin 77: Skin and Bones

Hullin 76: Doh! Even the Sages Realize What They Could Have Said Better

Hullin 75: Permitting the Forbidden Fats

Hullin 74: The Sciatic Nerve of the Fetus

Hullin 73: Impurity without Shechitah - Hypothetically Hypothetical Cases

Hullin 72: On the Order of Difficult Events

Hullin 71: The Very Difficult Question of Fetal Impurity

Hullin 70: The Surgical Activity of a Weasel

Hullin 69: The Fetus and Its Complications for Slaughtering, Exchange, and the Sanctity of the First-Born

Hullin 68: The Kosher Fetus

Hullin 67: More Creepy-Crawlies -- and the Leviathan

Hullin 66: Spontaneous Generation

Hullin 65: Birds of a Feather Dwell Together

Hullin 64: Egg Versatility

Hullin 63: The Torah's Non-Exhaustive List of Non-Kosher Birds

Hullin 62: The Common White "Snunit"

Hullin 61: Is This Bird Kosher?

Hullin 60: God's Lion's Roar to Defend the Jewish People

Hullin 59: The Species the Torah Knows, Including.... a Unicorn?

Hullin 58: Mosquito Years

Hullin 57: Scientific Experiments - Talmud Style: No King at the Ant Hill

Hullin 56: The Red Heart, Gizzard, and Liver

Hullin 55: You Can't Compare Treyfa with Trefya

Hullin 54: The Existential Value of a Kurdish Dinar

Hullin 53: Clawed and Kosher - Maybe

Hullin 52: Dislocations

Hullin 51: Falling from a Roof, Falling from the Air

Hullin 50: Confusing Intestines

Hullin 49: Brine and Honey as Neutralizing Venom

Hullin 48: The Local Rabbi Is Far Away

Hullin 47: The Telling Colors of Blood

Hullin 46: Frictionless Kashrut

Hullin 45: Talmudic Anatomy - Animals Edition

Hullin 44: Resolved by a Bat Kol/Heavenly Voice (Or Not)

Hullin 43: Even for Unusual Healing, Don't Rely on Miracles

Hullin 42: When Treyf Is Treyf

Hullin 41: Shechitah on a Ship

Hullin 40: Not in the Name of the Mountain, the River, the Sea!

Hullin 39: Pigul, Divorce, Slaves, and Their Parallels to Shechitah

Hullin 38: When an Animal Wiggles Its Ears

Hullin 37: At Death's Door (before Shechitah)

Hullin 36: What Resh Lakish Knew

Hullin 35: Susceptibility to Impurity

Hullin 34: How Impure Is Your Meat?

Hullin 33: Impure Hands, More and Less

Hullin 32: Invalid Shechitah

Hullin 31: The Question of Intent - Again

Hullin 30: The Many Paths to Shechitah

Hullin 29: The Impact of the Collective on 50/50

Hullin 28: Making the Best of an Imprecise Mechanism

Hullin 27: Ritual Slaughtering

Hullin 26: Servitude, Seduction, Refusal, Halitzah, and Havdalah

Hullin 25: Snippets of Caveats

Hullin 24: Staying Youthful by Standing on One Foot

Hullin 23: In Between

Hullin 22: Doves and Young Pigeons

Hullin 21: Imparting Impurity from the Death Throes

Hullin 20: The Mitzvah of Melikah

Hullin 19: When the Animal's Life Departs

Hullin 18: Serration, Cartilage, and the Stringencies of Babylonia

Hullin 17: Knives Out

Hullin 16: Machine Shechitah

Hullin 15: Shechting and Cooking on Shabbat: A Decree against Temptation

Hullin 14: What Is the Purpose of Animals?

Hullin 13: What Isn't a Good Shechitah

Hullin 12: Can You Trust the Shochet?

Hullin 11: Majority Rules

Hullin 10: The Possibly Non-Kosher Shechitah of 13 Animals

Hullin 9: Presumptions, Prohibitions, and Danger

Hullin 8: Kosher Shechitah

Hullin 7: A Righteous Donkey (and Animals of the Righteous)

Hullin 6: Who Is an Ignoramus? One Who Does Not Know Much

Hullin 5: God Is Looking Out for You (Or: Elijah and the Ravens)

Hullin 4: Can We Trust Jezebel's Kashrut?

Hullin 3: Kosher Slaughter - What's Ideal? What Works Anyway?

Hullin 2: Everyone Can Shecht, Except for Those Who Should Not

Menahot 110: Is Torah Study More Valuable Than Temple Sacrifice?

Menahot 109: The Temple of Onias

Menahot 108: Keeping Track of What You've Vowed to Sacrifice

Menahot 107: The 6 Horns for Collecting Donations

Menahot 106: More Covering of Forgotten Vows

Menahot 105: To Cover All Your Bases

Menahot 104: Wine and Oil, Redux

Menahot 103: Casual Speech, Casual Measures (Not Recommended)

Menahot 102: Consecration, Impurity, and Unfulfilled Vows

Menahot 101: Redeeming the Impure and the Pure

Menahot 100: The Impact of Shabbat on the Breads

Menahot 99: On Honoring Torah and the Influence of the Sages' Own Experiences

Menahot 98: When King Solomon Furnished the Temple

Menahot 97: What's a Cubit? An Imprecise Mishnah

Menahot 96: All the Technical Details You Ever Wanted about the Shewbread

Menahot 95: The Traveling Shewbread

Menahot 94: Fresh Bread Baking

Menahot 93: The Metaphysical Side of Sacrifices

Menahot 92: The Atonement of the Laying of Hands

Menahot 91: Specifying the Korban Olah (Burnt-Offering)

Menahot 90: More on the Holy Measuring Cups

Menahot 89: On Lighting the Menorah and Libations

Menahot 88: Measuring Oil

Menahot 87: Sourcing Wine

Menahot 86: EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)

Menahot 85: An Olive Travelogue (Beginning with Tekoa)

Menahot 84: The First Fruits of the 7 Species

Menahot 83: The Timing of the Pesach Offering

Menahot 82: Sacrifice Expenses

Menahot 81: In Exchange

Menahot 80: 40 Loaves and Replacement Sacrifices

Menahot 79: Thanksgiving Disqualifications

Menahot 78: The Inexperienced Kohen

Menahot 77: Bakery Conversions

Menahot 76: Refining the Flour - Again and Again and Again

Menahot 75: Oil, Folding, Breaking: Terms of the Various Grain-Offerings

Menahot 74: The Sinner's Grain-Offering

Menahot 73: Idolators' Temple Offerings (Yes, Really)

Menahot 72: Overriding Shabbat

Menahot 71: Reaping What You Sow

Menahot 70: The 5 Grains of Chametz and Matzah

Menahot 69: Elephants, Wolves, and the Things They Swallow Whole

Menahot 68: More Omer and the Decrees of R. Yohanan ben Zakkai

Menahot 67: When the Answer Came to Rava in a Dream

Menahot 66: The Omer in the Temple and Now

Menahot 65: How a Boethusian Heretic Counts the Omer

Menahot 64: The Land of Israel Shuddered in Dismay

Menahot 63: Pots and Pans

Menahot 62: Hashem Is Here, Hashem Is There

Menahot 61: The Wave

Menahot 60: Bringing the Grain-Offering Near and/or Waving It

Menahot 59: Oil, Frankincense, and More Grain-Offerings

Menahot 58: Honey on the Altar (and Muzzling)

Menahot 57: Chametz (Leaven) on the Altar

Menahot 56: Upon the Head of the Goat

Menahot 55: The Grain-Offering Cookbook

Menahot 54: A Fistful of Dough

Menahot 53: Menahot Are Matzah (with 2 exceptions)

Menahot 52: Measuring Flour and Frankincense

Menahot 51: How Good Was the Griddle-Cake?

Menahot 50: The Kohen's Grain-offering: Minhat Havitin

Menahot 49: Managing Sacrificial Shortfalls

Menahot 48: The Parallel of the Voluntary Peace-offering

Menahot 47: Shavuot Offerings: Consecration and Intent

Menahot 46: The Loaves and Lambs of Shavuot

Menahot 45: Explaining Ezekiel

Menahot 44: The Prostitute, the Sage, and His Tzitzit

Menahot 43: Should Women Be Wearing Tzitzit After All?

Menahot 42: Strings Hang Down

Menahot 41: An Angel's Halakhic Reproof

Menahot 40: Fraudulent Blue

Menahot 39: Strings and Knots in Blue and White

Menahot 38: Tekhelet: The Blue String among White Strings

Menahot 37: The Impossible Two-Headed Tefillin-Wearer

Menahot 36: I Wear My Tefillin at Night

Menahot 35: What If Tefillin Were Blue?

Menahot 34: Moving on to Tefillin...

Menahot 33: Mezuzah Placement

Menahot 32: Elijah the Prophet and the Halitzah Shoe

Menahot 31: Torn Torah Scrolls and Poetic Mezuzahs

Menahot 30: Mourning Moshe

Menahot 29: The Crowns on the Torah's Letters

Menahot 28: The Menorah

Menahot 27: The Sum of the Parts

Menahot 26: The Fistful of Grain

Menahot 25: The Tzitz: The Garment That Handles Impurity in the Grain

Menahot 24: The Value of a Teiku Conclusion

Menahot 23: When Are Grain-offerings Not Like Animal Sacrifices?

Menahot 22: They Go Together Like... Things That Go Together

Menahot 21: Salt from Sodom and Temple Salt

Menahot 20: The Essential Salt

Menahot 19: Laws, Statutes, and Biblical Repetition

Menahot 18: Tannaitic Drama and 15 Tasks of the Menahot

Menahot 17: Consumption - Eating and Burning

Menahot 16: Permitting Factors Mitigating against Pigul

Menahot 15: Thanksgiving and Shavuot

Menahot 14: Partial Pigul

Menahot 13: When Grain Is Like Blood

Menahot 12: The Toll of an Olive's Measure

Menahot 11: A Fistful of Grain, with Frankincense on the Side

Menahot 10: Right- and Left-handed Kohanim

Menahot 9: Explicitly Left-handed

Menahot 8: The Kohen Gadol's Bag-Lunch

Menahot 7: The Shewbread

Menahot 6: Mishnah vs. Amora

Menahot 5: Gemara Mechanics - Comparative Cases

Menahot 4: Grain-Offerings That Pave the Way for Other Things

Menahot 3: Torat Ha-Minhah, the Law of the Grain-Offering

Menahot 2: Switching to Grain

Zevahim 120: The Grand Finale (wait, no it's not)

Zevahim 119: The Inheritance of Shilo and Jerusalem

Zevahim 118: The Growth of Worship as a Nation

Zevahim 117: How Sacrifices Worked from the Beginning of Time

Zevahim 116: To Keep the Seed Alive

Zevahim 115: Before the Kohanim... There Were the First-Borns

Zevahim 114: Premature Offerings

Zevahim 113: How Did the Huge Animals Manage Noah's Ark?

Zevahim 112: Some Offerings Belong Outside the Temple Courtyard

Zevahim 111: Birds and the One-Cup, Two-Cup Blood Scenarios

Zevahim 110: More Offerings Outside

Zevahim 109: Pesky Pigul Thoughts

Zevahim 108: Some Ways an Offering Can Go Wrong

Zevahim 107: How Holy Is the Holy City (without a Temple)?

Zevahim 106: Outside of the Temple

Zevahim 105: A New Kind of Impurity

Zevahim 104: Disqualifications and the Ash Heap

Zevahim 103: Sacrificial Hides

Zevahim 102: Was Moses King?

Zevahim 101: Moshe, Aharon, and Inaugurating the Mishkan

Zevahim 100: When a Kohen Mourns

Zevahim 99: Kohanim Are People Too

Zevahim 98: Ending on a "Teku"

Zevhaim 97: Is a Mishnah Missing Words?

Zevahim 96: Garments and Vessels

Zevahim 95: The Art of Kashrut: Just One Oven

Zevahim 94: Impurity, Water, and Leather

Zevahim 93: Not Enough Blood to Require Laundering?

Zevahim 92: Laundry Time

Zevahim 91: Wine on the Fire

Zevahim 90: It's for the Birds

Zevahim 89: Halakhic Conflicts -- and Fun Gemara Games

Zevahim 88: New Clothes, Blood, and No Dry Cleaning

Zevahim 87: Sanctified Air Space

Zevahim 86: Before Midnight, Before Sunrise

Zevahim 85: Yes, the Gemara Considers Any and Every Case

Zevahim 84: The Ups and Downs (But Mainly Ups) of the Altar

Zevahim 83: The Altar Itself Sanctifies

Zevahim 82: Metaphysics in the Sacrifices

Zevahim 81: Like the Sin-Offering, So Too the Guilt-Offering

Zevahim 80: Neither Add Nor Subtract from the Mitzvah

Zevahim 79: Two Liquids and Impurity

Zevahim 78: Mixed Blood

Zevahim 77: Mixed-up Limbs

Zevahim 76: Allowing Terumah - Maybe

Zevahim 75: Any Offering Can Be Confused with Another

Zevahim 74: Mediterranean and Dead Seas: How to Lose a Minority Item

Zevahim 73: The Case of the Dried Figs

Zevahim 72: Counting One by One

Zevahim 71: Destroying the Many because of the Few

Zevahim 70: Geese, Chickens, and the Broken Neck of a Goat

Zevahim 69: When "Dead" Doesn't Mean Impure

Zevahim 68: The Red Heifer and the Birds

Zevahim 67: Mixed-up Post-Childbirth Bird Offerings

Zevahim 66: Procedure, Intent, and Consecration - for Bird Offerings

Zevahim 65: Invalid Bird Offerings

Zevahim 64: Bird Offerings - Not for the Faint of Heart

Zevahim 63: A Fistful of Flour

Zevahim 62: The Ashes of Isaac, or Where to Build the Second Temple's Altar

Zevahim 61: The Fire Never Left the Altar - Unless It Did?

Zevahim 60: The Bloody Courtyard

Zevahim 59: Damage, Rejection, and Saving Face in the Temple Courtyard

Zevahim 58: Go North!

Zevahim 57: Who Eats What and When?

Zevahim 56: Sunset Comes Too Soon for an Offering

Zevahim 55: All Sacrifices Are Holy, But Not to the Same Degree

Zevahim 54: The Place for the Beit HaMikdash

Zevahim 53: The Temple's Tribal Lands

Zevahim 52: Blood on the Base of the Altar

Zevahim 51: Binyan Av

Zevahim 50: Analogies, Comparisons, and Inferences

Zevahim 49: Exegetical Teachings

Zevahim 48: Offerings in the Northern Courtyard

Zevahim 47: Holy Intentions

Zevahim 46: Excluding Blood and Being Cut Off - 3 Lessons and 3 Verses

Zevahim 45: An Idolator's Offerings

Zevahim 44: Pigul, Clarified

Zevahim 43: Flour and Frankinscense

Zevahim 42: Again, Bloodwork

Zevahim 41: God Loves the Jewish People

Zevahim 40: The Curtains and the Incense

Zevahim 39: Blood on the Inner Altar

Zevahim 38: When Beit Hillel Turns Stringent and Beit Shammai Lenient

Zevahim 37: Different Interpretations: Meaning and Reading

Zevahim 36: Invalid Offerings

Zevahim 35: A Fetus, Eggs, and the Separation of Animals

Zevahim 34: Pouring and Disposing of the Dregs

Zevahim 33: The Heavy Laying on of Hands

Zevahim 32: The Surprising Leniencies and Leeway of Sacrifices

Zevahim 31: It's a Measure of Time: Half a Loaf of Bread

Zevahim 30: An Olive's Measure of Intent

Zevahim 29: More Ways to Offer Offerings Right

Zevahim 28: Beyond Place, Beyond Time

Zevahim 27: Hindrances to Atonement

Zevahim 26: When a Father Corrects His Rabbi-Son

Zevahim 25: Knife Technique and Troubleshooting

Zevahim 24: Between the Floor and the Foot

Zevahim 23: The Kohen's Frontpiece (Tzitz)

Zevahim 22: Talmudic Science (again); Also, the Elders of the South

Zevahim 21: The Basin

Zevahim 20: Sanctifying the Kohen's Hands and Feet

Zevahim 19: Yom Kippur Purifications

Zevahim 18: Holy Garments

Zevahim 17: Levels of Impurity

Zevahim 16: The People Who Invalidate Offerings

Zevahim 15: When Is Conveying Not Walking?

Zevahim 14: Location, Location, Location

Zevahim 13: Pigul

Zevahim 12: Designate Your Offerings (+ an example of rabbinic unanimity)

Zevahim 11: Jumping the Gun for Pesach

Zevahim 10: A Thin Red Line

Zevahim 9: Switching Korbanot

Zevahim 8: Specifically Purposeful Offerings

Zevahim 7: The Korban Pesach Is Different

Zevahim 6: The Question of Whether the Offering Atones

Zevahim 5: Atoning with Another's Offering

Zevahim 4: Sources of Blood

Zevahim 3: No Changes, No Transfers

Zevahim 2: An Introduction to Sacrifices

Horayot 14: Teiku - There's Always More to Learn

Horayot 13: Hierarchies

Horayot 12: Good Omens

Horayot 11: Cherry-picking Torah and the Anointing Oil

Horayot 10: Ashrei - Fortunate Are Those with Good Intent

Horayot 9: A King's Wealth

Horayot 8: Aspirational Halakhah

Horayot 7: When the Anointed Kohen Errs

Horayot 6: There's No Death for a Congregation and No Swapping Out a Sin-offering

Horayot 5: A Tribal Error

Horayot 4: Only a Child Could Make Such an Error (with all due respect to children!)

Horayot 3: When a Majority Means Jews in the Land of Israel

Horayot 2: Fit to Deliver a Halakhic Ruling

Avodah Zarah 76: Closing the Relationship between Jew and Non-Jew

Avodah Zarah 75: After Non-Jewish Handling: A Process

Avodah Zarah 74: Jews and Non-Jews at the Wine Press

Avodah Zarah 73: Amoraim Agree and Disagree

Avodah Zarah 72: Halakhah Is Not Science: Funnels

Avodah Zarah 71: Soldiers and Merchants

Avodah Zarah 70: Unsupervised Non-Jews

Avodah Zarah 69: Wine Stoppers and Supervision

Avodah Zarah 68: The Ick Factor

Avodah Zarah 67: Enhancing or Destroying the Taste of Food

Avodah Zarah 66: Separating Mixtures

Avodah Zarah 65: Jews and Non-Jews: How Far Can Their Friendships Go?

Avodah Zarah 64: Not All Non-Jews Are Idolaters

Avodah Zarah 63: Commerce Concerns

Avodah Zarah 62: Non-Jews, Non-Idolaters: "Stam Yeinam"

Avodah Zarah 61: Jews and Non-Jews Sharing Wine?!

Avodah Zarah 60: Falling into the Vat

Avodah Zarah 59: When Is a Convert Not (Yet) a Convert?

Avodah Zarah 58: The Time the Non-Jew Shoved His Arm into a Wine Vat

Avodah Zarah 57: When Intent Doesn't Matter

Avodah Zarah 56: You Can't Make a Libation with Your Feet

Avodah Zarah 55: Suffering Personified

Avodah Zarah 54: God Doesn't Interfere

Avodah Zarah 53: When an Object of Idolatry Can Be Used After All

Avodah Zarah 52: "Onias Worship": Not Idolatry, But Not Acceptable Either

Avodah Zarah 51: Not the Way It Was Done in the Temple

Avodah Zarah 50: Not a Carpenter, Nor the Son of a Carpenter

Avodah Zarah 49: No Financial Redemption for Idolatry

Avodah Zarah 48: The Asherah

Avodah Zarah 47: A Lulav, a Rock, and the Privacy of the Bathroom

Avodah Zarah 46: Attached to the Ground

Avodah Zarah 45: Mountains, Hills, and the Leafy Trees of Idolatry

Avodah Zarah 44: The Bathhouse of Aphrodite

Avodah Zarah 43: Here There Be Dragons

Avodah Zarah 42: The Destructive Power of the Dead Sea

Avodah Zarah 41: Idols, Graven Images, and Worshipped Sculpture

Avodah Zarah 40: Permitted Foods, from Fish to Apple Wine

Avodah Zarah 39: Gone Fishing

Avodah Zarah 37: The Not-So-Permissive Court

Avodah Zarah 38: A King's Table

Avodah Zarah 36: "Bishul Akum" and Jews Separating from Non-Jews

Avodah Zarah 35: Rolling Out Decrees

Avodah Zarah 34: When Rabbi Akiva Didn't Know Everything

Avodah Zarah 33: Correctives (or not) for Idolatrous Encounters in Daily Life

Avodah Zarah 31: If a Tree Bears Fruit in a Forest...

Avodah Zarah 32: How to Make the Very Best Wine

Avodah Zarah 30: Wine, Beer, Snakes, and Intermarriage

Avodah Zarah 29: At the Barbershop

Avodah Zarah 28: Shabbat Healing: Eyes and Ears and Mouth...

Avodah Zarah 27: To Trust a Heretic

Avodah Zarah 26: Breaking Halakhah on Purpose - But Why?

Avodah Zarah 25: When the Sun Stood Still

Avodah Zarah 24: The Honorable Dama ben Netinah

Avodah Zarah 23: What We Can Assume

Avodah Zarah 22: How Common Was Idolaters' Immorality Really?

Avodah Zarah 21: Protecting the Homes and Fields of the Land of Israel

Avodah Zarah 20: No Mercy, No Favors

Avodah Zarah 19: Learn the Torah That Delights You

Avodah Zarah 18: Rabbi Haninah, Rabbi Meir, and Beruriah

Avodah Zarah 17: Heresy and Faith under Rome

Avodah Zarah 16: A Lion Is Not a Work-Horse

Avodah Zarah 15: What Wil the Buyer Do?

Avodah Zarah 14: White Roosters

Avodah Zarah 13: Tax Reductions for Wreaths of Roses

Avodah Zarah 12: Traveling and Leniencies

Avodah Zarah 11: How Rome Falls to Onkelos

Avodah Zarah 10: Circumcision under the Romans

Avodah Zarah 9: The Timeline of the Universe

Avodah Zarah 8: Saving Torah's Penalties

Avodah Zarah 7: Was the Mishnah Written Out of Order?

Avodah Zarah 6: Pre-Holiday Business

Avodah Zarah 5: Repentance Leaves Sin in the Dust

Avodah Zarah 4: When God Is Indignant

Avodah Zarah 3: God's Special Jewish People and Their God

Avodah Zarah 2: Preventing Non-Jewish Celebration

Shevuot 49: Guardian Oaths

Shevuot 48: Collecting Debts (and Their Disputes)

Shevuot 47: No Oaths? Divide the Funds

Shevuot 46: Workers' Rights

Shevuot 45: Rabbinic Oath-taking

Shevuot 44: The Role of Collateral

Shevuot 43: Snippets from the Mishnah - including Lending on Collateral

Shevuot 42: Promissory Notes and Imposing an Oath

Shevuot 41: Suit and Countersuit

Shevuot 40: You're Right, But Only in Part

Shevuot 39: Sinners, Punishment and Righteous Oaths

Shevuot 38: Partial Claims

Shevuot 37: Swearing Falsely with Intent for the Oath of Deposit

Shevuot 36: More Curses - and Oaths for Monetary Matters

Shevuot 35: In the Name of God

Shevuot 34: Mocking Rabbi Shimon

Shevuot 33: Monetary Cases vs. Status Cases

Shevuot 32: Simultaneous Denial

Shevuot 31: Distance Yourself from Falsehood

Shevuot 30: Men Swearing on a Stack of Bibles

Shevuot 29: Flying Camels

Shevuot 28: Learning Shevuot in the Beit Midrash

Shevuot 27: An Uttered Oath or an Oath in Vain

Shevuot 26: So Much Forgetting of Things

Shevuot 25: Formulating Oaths

Shevuot 24: When Is Eating Not Eating?

Shevuot 23: How Precise an Oath

Shevuot 22: Talking and Eating and Talking about Eating

Shevuot 21: Don't Take God's Name in Vain

Shevuot 20: Why Women Making Kiddush Matter to Oaths in Vain

Shevuot 19: Two Paths Diverged (in a Wood)

Shevuot 18: Meriting Sons

Shevuot 17: Access Paths Out of the Temple

Shevuot 16: Everlasting Sanctity - Or Not?

Shevuot 15: Expanding Jerusalem

Shevuot 14: Hidden Impurity

Shevuot 13: Does Yom Kippur Atone for Violating Yom Kippur?

Shevuot 12: Dessert on the Altar

Shevuot 11: The Red Heifer and Unconditional Sanctity

Shevuot 10: Even More Goats

Shevuot 9: More Goats

Shevuot 8: Atonement or Suspended Punishment on Yom Kippur?

Shevuot 7: Offerings and Atonement

Shevuot 6: White on White

Shevuot 5: Pathways of Interpretation

Shevuot 4: Mishnaic Authorship -- and Lashes

Shevuot 3: Sacrifices on a Sliding Scale

Shevuot 2: Two That Are Four

Makkot 24: The Promise of the Foxes

Makkot 23: The Heavenly Court Supporting the People (Even King Solomon)

Makkot 22: Not 40 Lashes, But 39 - And More Difficult Details

Makkot 21: The Tattoo Taboo

Makkot 20: Real (Jewish) Men Don't Shave (in Mourning)

Makkot 19: Why Ma'aser Sheni Needs the Temple

Makkot 18: When Offerings Are Invalid for Kohanim to Eat

Makkot 17: Everyone Should Have a Child Like Rabbi Shimon

Makkot 16: 8 Foodie Prohibitions

Makkot 15: When a Positive Commandment Corrects a Violation

Makkot 14: Generational Violations

Makkot 13: And Now... Lashes

Makkot 12: Timing Matters

Makkot 11: The Mothers of the High Priests

Makkot 10: Not Too Big, Not Too Small

Makkot 9: Is Ignorance of the Law a Good Defense?

Makkot 8: The Eternal Torah, and the Time It Was Given

Makkot 7: Murder and Degrees of Unintentional Killing

Makkot 6: Basics of Witness Testimony (and some quirky cases)

Makkot 5: How Bad Conspiring Witnesses: Unto 100 Rounds

Makkot 4: Well Water in the Sea

Makkot 3: Talmudic Actuary Tables

Makkot 2: Introducing the Lashes of Conspiring Witnesses

Sanhedrin 113: Wickedness Brings Anger; Righteousness Brings Joy

Sanhedrin 112: Destroying Consecrated Property

Sanhedrin 111: Destroying a City of Idolaters

Sanhedrin 110: Mrs. Korach, Mrs. On, and Moshe's Authority

Sanhedrin 109: Sins of the People of Genesis

Sanhedrin 108: Animal Rescue

Sanhedrin 107: Jesus Leaves the Jewish Path

Sanhedrin 106: The Wicked Moabite and the Wicked Edomite

Sanhedrin 105: Why the "Wrong" Reasons Are the Right Reasons

Sanhedrin 104: The Blind Camel

Sanhedrin 103: No, the Wicked Kings Were Really That Bad

Sanhedrin 102: Maybe the Wicked Kings Weren't So Bad

Sanhedrin 101: Good in This World, Good in the World to Come

Sanhedrin 100: Rabbinic Disrespect - and the Wisdom of Ben Sira

Sanhedrin 99: Sing Every Day

Sanhedrin 98: In Every Generation, Every Day

Sanhedrin 97: Not Everyone Lies

Sanhedrin 96: When Evil Prospers

Sanhedrin 95: Stories of War and a Hidden Message of Hope

Sanhedrin 94: The Writing of the Verses of Biblical History

Sanhedrin 93: Who Will Say He Is the Messiah?

Sanhedrin 92: Bringing Back the Dry Bones

Sanhedrin 91: Cleopatra and Antony

Sanhedrin 90: The World to Come

Sanhedrin 89: When God Hides His Reasons

Sanhedrin 88: Accepting Majority Rule

Sanhedrin 87: Disagreeing Rabbis Aren't Rebellious Elders (unless they cross that line)

Sanhedrin 86: Retranslating the Ten Commandments

Sanhedrin 85: The Prohibition against Hitting One's Parents: Extra Ramifications

Sanhedrin 84: Sentenced to Strangulation

Sanhedrin 83: The Amora Who Was Like a Tanna

Sanhedrin 82: Zealotry

Sanhedrin 81: When the Court Can't Execute Those Who Deserve It

Sanhedrin 80: Talmudic Forensics (and Word Problems)

Sanhedrin 79: Force, Intent, and What It Takes to Convict

Sanhedrin 78: Killing a Dead Man

Sanhedrin 77: Indirect Ways of Killing - a Manual

Sanhedrin 76: Examples of Extreme Death Sentencing

Sanhedrin 75: Burning Incest

Sanhedrin 74: Sin and Save Your Life (with Exceptions)

Sanhedrin 73: To Prevent the Sinner from Sinning

Sanhedrin 72: A Homeowner's Defense

Sanhedrin 71: Narrowing the Possibility of a Ben Sorer u-Moreh

Sanhedrin 70: Wine That Gladdens, Wine That Destroys

Sanhedrin 69: The Very Young Generations of King David's Family

Sanhedrin 68: The Loss of Rabbi Eliezer

Sanhedrin 67: How the Frog Covered the Land of Egypt

Sanhedrin 66: The Death Sentence of the Betrothed Adulteress

Sanhedrin 65: How Do You Prove That Shabbat Is Shabbat?

Sanhedrin 64: The Propensity of People to Do Evil

Sanhedrin 63: Pronouncing the Names of Idolatries

Sanhedrin 62: Violations while Unaware: Shabbat and Idolatry

Sanhedrin 61: Idolatry Loopholes: Intent and Practice

Sanhedrin 60: Casual Blasphemy, a Historical, Habitual Practice

Sanhedrin 59: Not the Sciatic Nerve or a Limb from a Live Animal

Sanhedrin 58: How Violence Destroys Holiness

Sanhedrin 57: Can a Non-Jew Be Subject to Jewish Law?

Sanhedrin 56: Blessing God: The Need for Euphemism

Sanhedrin 55: The Role of Shame

Sanhedrin 54: 'In the Way One Lies with a Woman'

Sanhedrin 53: Stoning or Sin-Offerings

Sanhedrin 52: Dignity Even in Being Put to Death

Sanhedrin 51: The Bad End of the Kohen's Daughter

Sanhedrin 50: Why Ranking the Severity of the 4 Executions Matters

Sanhedrin 49: A Hierarchy of Deaths

Sanhedrin 48: Kingly vs. Courtly Executions

Sanhedrin 47: The Curative Graves of the Sages

Sanhedrin 46: From the Executed to the Mourners

Sanhedrin 45: Even the Worst Sinner Is Human

Sanhedrin 44: Brazen before God

Sanhedrin 43: Confessions

Sanhedrin 42: Acquittal and Convicted

Sanhedrin 41: The Women Who Knew Halakhah

Sanhedrin 40: The Importance of Witnesses

Sanhedrin 39: The Comeuppance of the Wicked: What Does God Think?

Sanhedrin 38: What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?

Sanhedrin 37: The Goodness of the Jewish People

Sanhedrin 36: A Hierarchy of Judges - and Torah Scholars

Sanhedrin 35: Competing, Contradictory Mitzvot - Which Wins?

Sanhedrin 34: A Blind Judge

Sanhedrin 33: Default Innocence

Sanhedrin 32: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue

Sanhedrin 31: New Evidence

Sanhedrin 30: Combined Testimony

Sanhedrin 29: Witness Hazing - But in a Good Way

Sanhedrin 28: Yevamot for Witnesses

Sanhedrin 27: Disqualified for Being Family

Sanhedrin 26: Wrinkles in Intercalating the Year

Sanhedrin 25: Interest and Pigeons

Sanhedrin 24: Respect, Disrespect, and Disqualifiers

Sanhedrin 23: Judge Selection

Sanhedrin 22: Matchmaking and the King's Coiffure

Sanhedrin 21: The Pitfalls of Knowing Reasons for the Mitzvot

Sanhedrin 20: Moral Paragons

Sanhedrin 19: Challenges of Raising Children

Sanhedrin 18: Limitations on Who Can Be a Judge

Sanhedrin 17: The Odd Verdict in a Unanimous Vote to Convict

Sanhedrin 16: The Court of 71

Sanhedrin 15: Judge the Snake with 23

Sanhedrin 14: Rabbi Yehudah ben Bava and Rabbinic Authority

Sanhedrin 13: Seasons in Their Time

Sanhedrin 12: Rome's Impact on the Calendar

Sanhedrin 11: Sages: Pious and Human

Sanhedrin 10: Lashes and Leap Months

Sanhedrin 9: When Is a Monetary Case a Capital Case?

Sanhedrin 8: A Count of 3

Sanhedrin 7: Bringing Justice into the World

Sanhedrin 6: In Praise of Compromise as Blasphemy

Sanhedrin 5: Eggs, Marsh Water, and Halakhic Leadership (Oh my!)

Sanhedrin 4: Text vs. Tradition

Sanhedrin 3: Does the Great Court Need 141 Judges?!

Sanhedrin 2: The Number of Judges

Bava Batra 176: A Halakhic Way of Thinking

Bava Batra 175: The Torah Effect

Bava Batra 174: Faulty Ethics, or Why 'Poverty Follows the Poor'

Bava Batra 173: Signing on to Be a Guarantor Is Real

Bava Batra 172: What to Do about Imprecise Documents

Bava Batra 171: Shabbat-Dated Documents

Bava Batra 170: Practical Cases of Contested Loans (plus)

Bava Batra 169: In the Absence of a Guarantee

Bava Batra 168: The Selfish Trait of Sodom

Bava Batra 167: How Far People Go to Commit Fraud

Bava Batra 166: The Need for Lawyers

Bava Batra 165: Terms of Agreements

Bava Batra 164: New Ways of Forging: Erasures and Dates

Bava Batra 163: Empty Lines Invite Forgery

Bava Batra 162: Empty Space

Bava Batra 161: Room for Fraud

Bava Batra 160: Securing Your Land for the Babylonian Exile

Bava Batra 159: New Parameters in Inheritance Cases

Bava Batra 158: Collapsing Case Studies

Bava Batra 157: The Order of Inheritance

Bava Batra 156: Old Enough to Get Married, But Not to Sell Inheritance

Bava Batra 155: Old Enough for Business Sense

Bava Batra 154: Sick-bed Giving (Or: Not Every Ill Person Is on His Deathbed)

Bava Batra 153: Cursing Rava

Bava Batra 152: Deathbed Changes to a Deathbed Will

Bava Batra 151: A Soap Opera Daf

Bava Batra 150: Some Significance of Movable Property

Bava Batra 149: A Convert, a Slave, Rava, and a Man on His Deathbed

Bava Batra 148: Where's the Miracle? Deathbed Recoveries

Bava Batra 147: The Farmer's Talmudic Almanac

Bava Batra 146: Gifts to the Bride's Father's House - Temporarily?

Bava Batra 145: Wedding Presents

Bava Batra 144: Forced Service to Rome

Bava Batra 143: The Donkey and the Five Women

Bava Batra 142: The Fetus Does Not Inherit

Bava Batra 141: It's Surely Worse to Be a Woman, But Go Support Your Daughters

Bava Batra 140: Those Poor Disadvantaged Males

Bava Batra 139: The Strength of an Undocumented Loan

Bava Batra 138: More Deathbed Utterances

Bava Batra 137: A Woman and Her Date Palm

Bava Batra 136: What Can an Heir Do with an Early Bequest?

Bava Batra 135: Ineffectual Deathbed Documents

Bava Batra 134: The Greatness of Hillel the Elder's Students

Bava Batra 133: Giving Gifts Instead of Inheritance: What Does It Really Mean and How Bad Is it?

Bava Batra 132: A Woman Receives Property, Apparently with Limits

Bava Batra 131: Appointing an Administrator for One's Estate

Bava Batra 130: You Can Only Judge the Case before You

Bava Batra 129: Gifting Inheritance

Bava Batra 128: Rabbi Abba's 7 Inquiries

Bava Batra 127: When Is a Male Not Male? When Is a First-born Not First-Born?

Bava Batra 126: Double Portion Tension

Bava Batra 125: The Case of the Great-Grandmother

Bava Batra 124: When the First-born Does Not Get a Double Portion

Bava Batra 123: The Double Portion

Bava Batra 122: Dividing the Land

Bava Batra 121: Tu B'Av: The Maidens and More

Bava Batra 120: A Miracle for Yocheved

Bava Batra 119: What Moshe Didn't Know

Bava Batra 118: The Righteous Shall Inherit the Land

Bava Batra 117: Biblical Portions

Bava Batra 116: Student Heirs

Bava Batra 115: Prioritizing Sons - and Rabbinic Halakhah

Bava Batra 114: Limiting a Son's Maternal Inheritance

Bava Batra 113: Making Sense of Inheritance Genealogies

Bava Batra 112: Inheriting within the Tribe

Bava Batra 111: The Daughters Won't Inherit the Earth

Bava Batra 110: Biblical Heiresses

Bava Batra 109: Inheritance Hierarchy

Bava Batra 108: Inheriting the Land: We Don't Start with Calamity

Bava Batra 107: "So Animals Can't Jump Over the Fence": Dividing Property

Bava Batra 106: Inheritance by Lottery

Bava Batra 105: How to Pay for a Leap Month of Rent

Bava Batra 104: To the Seller's Advantage

Bava Batra 103: Crevices and Rocks

Bava Batra 102: A Quick Burial

Bava Batra 101: Catacombs

Bava Batra 100: The Ceremony on the Cemetery Road

Bava Batra 99: The Keruvim

Bava Batra 98: The Customer Isn't Always Right

Bava Batra 97: Consecrations and Kiddush

Bava Batra 96: Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine... Vinegar

Bava Batra 95: Wine into Vinegar

Bava Batra 94: A Quarter Kav of Dirt

Bava Batra 93: The Seller's Obligation in Making the Sale

Bava Batra 92: Let the Buyer Beware (Or Not?)

Bava Batra 91: Theological Holes in the Story of Ruth

Bava Batra 90: Hoarders, Market Demand, and Food Scarcity

Bava Batra 89: Criminal Minds - and the Torah Scholars Who Know Them

Bava Batra 88: Honest Shopkeepers

Bava Batra 87: A Child Breaks an Oil Flask and the Storekeeper Is Liable (Maybe)

Bava Batra 86: Kinyan Meshicha

Bava Batra 85: The Point of No Reneging

Bava Batra 84: All the Colors of the Sun

Bava Batra 83: The Right to Renege

Bava Batra 82: Branches, Roots, and the Palm Tree's Smooth Trunk

Bava Batra 81: This Land Is Your Land

Bava Batra 80: Honey and Honeycomb

Bava Batra 79: Consecration

Bava Batra 78: Selling Donkeys

Bava Batra 77: If You Buy the Wagon, Do You Buy the Mules?

Bava Batra 76: The Largest Movable Object That Is Not Alive

Bava Batra 75: The Lights of the Leviathan and Jerusalem

Bava Batra 74: The Leviathan and the Question of Magic

Bava Batra 73: The Esoteric Tales of a Jewish 'Sinbad'

Bava Batra 72: Consecrated and Ancestral Lands

Bava Batra 71: What's the Difference between a Sale and a Gift?

Bava Batra 70: Fulfilling One's Contract Terms - Or Not

Bava Batra 69: A Good Idea to Specify the Trees

Bava Batra 68: Bright Lights Big City

Bava Batra 67: Sales without Specification

Bava Batra 66: Attached to the Ground

Bava Batra 65: Do You Get the Keys When You Buy the Door?

Bava Batra 64: When You Need to Fly to Reach Your Property

Bava Batra 63: From the Depths of the Earth to the Height of the Sky

Bava Batra 62: Boundary Charts and Graphs

Bava Batra 61: Annexes and Cisterns

Bava Batra 60: Those Who Mourn Jerusalem Will Merit to See It Rebuilt

Bava Batra 59: Forcing People to Be Considerate

Bava Batra 58: The Visions of Rabbi Benaya

Bava Batra 57: The Modesty of Men

Bava Batra 56: Combining Witnesses

Bava Batra 55: Sea Quill Boundaries

Bava Batra 54: Dina de-Malkhuta Dina (Again)

Bava Batra 53: Adding the Doors to Palaces

Bava Batra 52: Not All Families Get Along

Bava Batra 51: Hidden Money

Bava Batra 50: Handling Quasi-Joint Property in Marriage

Bava Batra 49: Can a Wife Be forced to Sell Land to Her Husband?

Bava Batra 48: Tavi, Paphi, and the Kinara

Bava Batra 47: Thieves and Their Rights to Ownership

Bava Batra 46: The Dry Cleaners' Wrong Clothes

Bava Batra 45: Witnesses vs. Chazakah

Bava Batra 44: An "Apotiki" Lien on Movable Property

Bava Batra 43: Bias!

Bava Batra 42: When Can Joint Owners Establish a Chazakah?

Bava Batra 41: The Need for a Claim

Bava Batra 40: Hidden Gifts

Bava Batra 39: The Owner's Protest (Details)

Bava Batra 38: Rough Travels

Bava Batra 37: Uproot Your Trees and Go!

Bava Batra 36: No Presumption of Ownership for Slaves (or Livestock)

Bava Batra 35: A Sharecropper Is Not an Owner

Bava Batra 34: It's Mine! Or Using Oaths or the Court to Your Own Ends

Bava Batra 33: Back When There Was No Paper Trail

Bava Batra 32: A Counterfeit IOU

Bava Batra 31: Chazakah Testimony

Bava Batra 30: Again, the Burden of Proof

Bava Batra 29: Using the Stuff You Own

Bava Batra 28: Presumptive Ownership

Bava Batra 27: Halfsies

Bava Batra 26: When the Wind Blows the Chaff

Bava Batra 25: "Hashem is truly everywhere"

Bava Batea 24: Are Trees Beautiful?

Bava Batra 23: Bye Bye Birdie

Bava Batra 22: Rav Adda bar Abba

Bava Batra 21: Jewish Education

Bava Batra 20: Tumah Blockers

Bava Batra 19: And/Or

Bava Batra 18: The Refutation of Rava

Bava Batra 17: Keep Your Distance

Bava Batra 16: Who Is the Satan?

Bava Batra 15: Dead Men Can't Tell Tales

Bava Batra 14: Who Wrote the Bible

Bava Batra 13: A Bathhouse, an Olive Press, and Sacred Scrolls

Bava Batra 12: Rabbi Prophets

Bava Batra 11: When You Can't Divide and Conquer

Bava Batra 10: Rabbit Chanina ben Tryadon’s Tzedakah

Bava Batra 9: Tzedakah

Bava Batra 8: Rabbinic Exemptions

Bava Batra 7: Why Elijah Stopped Visiting

Bava Batra 6: Talmudic Building Code - Take 2

Bava Batra 5: Ravina vs. Ronya

Bava Batra 4: The Last Hasmonean, Preserved in Honey

Bava Batra 3: Talmudic Building Code

Bava Batra 2: A Partition or a Division

Bava Metzia 119: Roots and Leaves

Bava Metzia 118: Public Damages

Bava Metzia 117: I Did Not Sign Up for This

Bava Metzia 116: Upstairs Downstairs

Bava Metzia 115: The Milestone

Bava Metzia 114: A Graveyard visit with Eliyahu

Bava Metzia 113: One Bed Two Bed

Bava Metzia 112: Craftspeople Deserve Their Wages

Bava Metzia 111: Oshek and Gezel

Bava Metzia 110: Payday

Bava Metzia 109: Down By the Sycamore Tree

Bava Metzia 108: Bar Meitzra

Bava Metiza 107: How Do You Take Your Morning Bread?

Bava Metzia 106: Crop Failures and Their Many Consequences

Bava Metzia 105: Little House on the Prairie and Unsuccessful Crops

Bava Metzia 104: Lashon Hedyot

Bava Metzia 103: Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers

Bava Metzia 102: Shiluach HaKan

Bava Metzia 101: Uprooted Trees and Evicted Homes

Bava Metzia 100: Oath-taking to Establish a Sale (except for slaves)

Bava Metzia 99: 50 Dates Minus 1

Bava Metzia 98: Liable for a Partial Admission

Bava Metzia 97: When the Mice Unite against a Cat

Bava Metzia 96: Rami Bar Chama Pushes the Halakhic Boundries

Bava Metzia 95: The Borrower

Bava Metzia 94: Stipulations on the Torah's Conditions

Bava Metzia 93: The Shomers

Bava Metzia 92: The Cost of a Cucumber

Bava Metzia 91: The Problem of Dairy Bread

Bava Metzia 90: Muzzle It!

Bava Metzia 89: How Do You Like Your Grapes?

Bava Metzia 88: When Ma’aser begins

Bava Metzia 87: Abraham and Sarah, in Midrash

Bava Metzia 86: Letters from the Sky

Bava Metzia 85: How Great Was Rabbi Hiyya!

Bava Metzia 84: Rabbi Yochanon and Reish Leikish

Bava Metzia 83: Caring for the Workers

Bava Metzia 82: Watching Lost Objects

Bava Metzia 81: Put It Down!

Bava Metzia 80: Rental Agreements Gone Wrong

Bava Metzia 79: Rent-a-Donkey (or a Boat)

Bava Metzia 78: River Deep Mountain High

Bava Metzia 77: Labor Law

Bava Metzia 76: A Nes Nistar daf 76 on Israel’s 76 birthday!

Bava Metzia 75: The Halacha of Hillel

Bava Metzia 74: Grapes, Olives, and Clumps of Clay

Bava Metzia 73: Placing Your Wine Orders Early

Bava Metzia 72: Forward Contracting

Bava Metzia 71: When Lending with Interest Seems OK, Maybe

Bava Metzia 70: Charging Interest Non-Jews

Bava Metzia 69: Covering Costs

Bava Metzia 68: Iska

Bava Metzia 67: The Dust of Interest

Bava Metzia 66: Asmachta

Bava Metzia 65: Higher and Partial Payments

Bava Metzia 64: Looking a Lot Like Interest

Bava Metzia 63: Paying It Forward

Bava Metzia 62: Market Rates

Bava Metzia 61: Only God Knows the Truth

Bava Metzia 60: Deceptive Selling

Bava Metzia 59: Tanur Shel Akhnai

Bava Metzia 58: God Owns the Consecrated Animals

Bava Metzia 57: The Temple Won't Take Advantage (Because It's Allowed)

Bava Metzia 56: When Onaah Does Not Apply

Bava Metzia 55: Worth a Perutah, Need a Fifth

Bava Metzia 54: The Fifth

Bava Metzia 53: Deconsecrating Maaser Sheini

Bava Metzia 52: Eroded Coins

Bava Metzia 51: Who Can Claim Fraud

Bava Metzia 50: Fraud at a Sixth

Bava Metzia 49: A Halakhic Better Business Bureau

Bava Metzia 48: Divine Retribution

Bava Metzia 47: The Significance of a Handkerchief

Bava Metzia 46: The Exchange Without the Stock

Bava Metzia 45: The Power of Exchange

Bava Metzia 44: Commodity vs. Currency

Bava Metzia 43: Drinking the Stash

Bava Metzia 42: To Be a Proper Guardian

Bava Metzia 41: Moving the Barrel

Bava Metzia 40: Shrinking Produce

Bava Metzia 39: Apotropos - Guardian and Custodian

Bava Metzia 38: The Property of Captives

Bava Metzia 37: The Thief Who Admits He Stole

Bava Metzia 36: When a Guardian Hands Off to Another Guardian

Bava Metzia 35: Of Jewels and Cows and Land Transactions

Bava Metzia 34: HaMafkid

Bava Metzia 33: Your Father, Your Teacher

Bava Kamma 32: The Ban on Animals' Suffering

Bava Metzia 31: You Can Say That Again

Bava Metzia 30: Taking Care with Others' Stuff

Bava Metzia 29: Lost Tefillin and More

Bava Metzia 28: Lost & Found

Bava Metzia 27: Returning Lost Objects Is a Mitzvah (But Not Quite Always)

Bava Metzia 26: A Few Considerations

Bava Metzia 25: Dropped Coins

Bava Metzia 24: Be Nice and Give It Back

Bava Metzia 23: Incidental Simanim

Bava Metzia 22: Hospitality

Bava Metzia 21: Ye'ush and Siman

Bava Metzia 20: Lost & Found: The Documents Edition

Bava Metiza 19: What is the Norm?

Bava Metzia 18: Lost (and Found) Documents

Bava Metiza 17: Can a Ketubah Be a Get?

Bava Metzia 16: People Share the World... And Stuff Happens

Bava Metzia 15: So Much Unfairness of a Robber's Payback

Bava Metzia 14: Protecting Your Property Purchases

Bava Metzia 13: When Promissory Notes Don't Clarify Matters

Bava Metzia 12: Household Acquisition

Bava Metiza 11: The Will to Acquire

Bava Metzia 10: Falling On What You Want to Acquire

Bava Metzia 9: Don't Push a Donkey

Bava Metzia 8: Taking Ownership from Someone or No One

Bava Metzia 7: Hekdesh and Reshut

Bava Metzia 6: The Burden of Proof

Bava Metzia 5: Why We Don't Trust Shepherds

Bava Metzia 4: Determining Facts on the Ground

Bava Metzia 3: Oaths vs. Testimony

Bava Metzia 2: It's Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine!

Bava Kamma 119: Holding on to What Is Yours (Or Not)

Bava Kamma 118: Count Your Sheep!

Bava Kamma 117: Comeuppance for R. Yochanan and the Resurrection of R. Kahana

Bava Kamma 116: The Laws of Caravans

Bava Kamma 115: The Law of the Marketplace

Bava Kamma 114: Go Tell the Bees That They Are Home

Bava Kamma 113: Excommunication

Bava Kamma 112: Merciful Halakhah

Bava Kamma 111: Never Ever Ever Getting (It Back)

Bava Kamma 110: A Robbed Convert Without Heirs

Bava Kamma 109: Principal and Chomesh

Bava Kamma 108: Who Asks a Negligent Guardian to Watch Their Stuff Again?

Bava Kamma 107: How Can the Torah's Words Be Out of Order?!

Bava Kamma 106: Hekeish

Bava Kamma 105: Rava’s teaching

Bava Kamma 104: Paying the Fifth

Bava Kamma 103: Much Ado about a Bunch of Flax

Bava Kamma 102: Studying vs. Writing the Mishnah

Bava Kama 101: Defining the Art of a Craft

Bava Kamma 100: Red and Black

Bava Kamma 99: The Expert Slaughterer

Bava Kamma 98: Indirect Damages: Who Is Liable?

Bava Kamma 97: Worthless Coins

Bava Kamma 96: When Is a Palm Tree No Longer a Palm Tree?

Bava Kamma 95: Rebbi’s Meir and shinui koneh

Bava Kamma 94: Rebbe’s Takana for Teshuva

Bava Kamma 93: Making Something Your Own

Bava Kamma 92: Pray for Mercy on Others' Behalf

Bava Kamma 91: When an Object Becomes a Weapon

Bava Kamma 90: What Judge Recreates the Cases He Judges?!

Bava Kamma 89: Back in Ketuvot

Bava Kamma 88: A=B=C

Bava Kamma 87: Personal Injuries

Bava Kamma 86: Boshet (Humiliation)

Bava Kamma 85: Repui and Boshet

Bava Kamma 84: An Eye for an Eye

Bava Kamma 83: If You Learn Greek, Must You Think Greek Thoughts?

Bava Kamma 82: Ezra’s Ten

Bava Kamma 81: The Ten

Bava Kamma 80: The Curative Properties of Goat Milk

Bava Kamma 79: How Much Chutzpah? Ignoring God vs. Ignoring People

Bava Kamma 78: Kilayim animals

Bava Kamma 77: Meat - Holy and Treif

Bava Kamma 76: Answers from Eretz Yisroel

Bava Kamma 75: Can a Thief Get Out of Penalties by Coming Clean?!

Bava Kamma 74: 70a vs. 74b

Bava Kamma 73: Contradictions as the Beginnings of Conspiracy Theories

Bava Kamma 72: The Moment of Shehitah

Bava Kamma 71: Cooking on Shabbat

Bava Kamma 70: Rabbinic Power of Attorney

Bava Kamma 69: Discreet Efforts against Thievery

Bava Kamma 68: The Timeline of Despair

Bava Kamma 67: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Bava Kamma 66: Despair

Bava Kamma 65: When the Thief Wins

Bava Kamma 64: Getting Out of Paying the Fine

Bava Kamma 63: Thievery vs. A Claim of Thievery

Bava Kamma 62: Hidden Responsibilities and the Penalties for Theft

Bava Kamma 61: It's No Surprise That Buildings Contain Things

Bava Kamma 60: Who By Fire

Bava Kamma 59: How Mourning the Temple Is Relevant to Damages

Bava Kamma 58: When an Animal Gives Birth on Another's Property

Bava Kamma 57: Shomer Sacher vs Shomer Chinam

Bava Kamma 56: When the Heavenly Court Steps In

Bava Kamma 55: Everlasting Good for the Jewish People

Bava Kamma 54: When an Ox is More than an Ox

Bava Kamma 53: When the Ox and Pit Damage Together

Bava Kama 52: Good Enough for an Ox, But Not for a Camel

Bava Kamma 51: Injured Animals, Cisterns, and Water

Bava Kamma 50: Nechunya’s Pits

Bava Kamma 49: Not Just Piles of Money

Bava Kamma 48: Crouching Ox, Hidden Pit

Bava Kamma 47: Eating Poison

Bava Kamma 46: Dividing Disputed Property

Bava Kamma 45: The Only Sure Protection against a Goring Ox

Bava Kamma 44: The Intent of Animals

Bava Kamma 43: Unintentional Death

Bava Kamma 42: A Prospective Asset

Bava Kamma 41: The Killer Ox

Bava Kamma 40: Atoning for a Goring Ox

Bava Kamma 39: Stadium Oxen

Bava Kamma 38: Fulfilling Your Role on Earth

Bava Kamma 37: Selective Goring

Bava Kamma 36: How Many Oxen Can An Ox Gore

Bava Kamma 35: The Burden of Proof

Bava Kamma 34: How Much Is That Ox Worth?

Bava Kamma 33: If Your Ox Gores My Ox...

Bava Kamma 32: Damages and Unexpected Parallels

Bava Kamma 31: Pileup

Bava Kamma 30: Everyone Has a Portion in the Land of Israel

Bava Kamma 29: Ownerless objects

Bava Kamma 28: Don't Take the Law into Your Own Hands

Bava Kamma 27: Left Objects

Bava Kamma 26: When the Logic Doesn't Apply

Bava Kamma 25: Sufficient Logic

Bava Kamma 24: When an Animal You Don't Own Is Your Weapon

Bava Kamma 11: Ulla x 7

Bava Kamma 23: Big Mouth

Bava Kamma 22: How By Fire