יום ד Date: 3 Adar, 5777 (3/1/17) – Bava Basra Daf 38 ~ Tani Guterman
WORKING WAVELENGTHS [38a middle] Mishnah: If the owner of a property lived in Yehudah, but his property, which an assumed occupant was …
WORKING WAVELENGTHS [38a middle] Mishnah: If the owner of a property lived in Yehudah, but his property, which an assumed occupant was …
DEVIOUS DENSITIES [37b middle] Rava: If one sold trees that were planted too densely together, the buyer does not receive any land …
ALLOWABLE ARGUMENTATION [36a bottom] R’ Yishmael: Plowing does not establish a Chazakah (legal acquisition by right of possession). R’ Akiva: Plowing does …
DIVIDING DONKEYS [35a bottom] Mishnah: If a man exchanges a cow for a donkey and it calves, and similarly if a man …
PROPER PRIESTHOOD [31b bottom] Mishnah: R’ Yehudah: We do not raise a person to a Kehunah (priestly) status on the basis of …
STINKY SENSES [25a top] Mishnah: One must distance animal carcasses, graves, and tanneries fifty Amos from a town (so as not to …
OUTLYING OFFSHOOTS [24b top] Mishnah: When planting a tree, one must distance it at least twenty five Amos from the edge of …
QUIRKY QUESTIONS [23b bottom] Gemarah: A young dove which is found within fifty amos of a dovecote, belongs to the owner of …
MIGRANT MAKEUPS [22a top] Ezra decreed for the Jewish nation that peddles should go from town to town selling cosmetics (for them …
*Dedicated by Tani to his wife Daniella, who is a Jewish education teacher.* ENRICHING EDUCATION [21a top] R’ Yehoshua ben Gamla instituted that …