• Bava Metzia 60b - 62a
    Apr 29 2024

    Prohibited forms of usury • Stealing money with noble intentions • Prohibited deceptive practices • You won't eat bugs and you'll be happy • Inherited usury • Your own life comes first

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Bava Metzia 53b - 54b
    Apr 22 2024

    How is Chomesh, an additional charge for the owner's redemption of his second tithe, calculated; is it 20% or 25% of the principle value? • Assymetric bidding wars for redeeming consecrated assets • When can Chomesh be charged on a prior Chomesh assessment?

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Koheles Ecclesiastes 12:1
    Apr 18 2024

    The bill is coming, or is it? Rav Mordechai Elefant's formative experience • Strategies to remember your Creator in youth • The Steipler explains that by abandoning God, a person is engulfed in a spirit of impurity which leads him to embrace outlandish folly

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    46 mins
  • Bava Metzia 46b - 47b
    Apr 14 2024

    Can one effect a barter transaction with money, or only engage in a sale transaction with money? • Transactions with grey market money • When can the transfer of money be utilized to effect a transaction without the purchaser also doing Meshicha, drawing the acquisition towards himself? Who provides the token object to effect a Chalipin exchange, the recipient or donor?

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Bava Metzia 39b - 40b
    Apr 9 2024

    Claiming an inheritance as a long lost brother • Wicked mice have block parties • Healthy profit margins • Buyers and sellers negotiate

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Netziv on Antisemitism
    Apr 4 2024

    Divine glory is strikingly manifest on earth through His wondrous salvation of His people in the merit of deep focused Torah study, integration of Torah enlightenment in our lives, and supporting Torah • By observing His wondrous protection of Israel, those engaging in violence, defamatory rhetoric, and disingenuous vengeful posturing are encouraged to realign themselves with God

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    30 mins
  • Bava Metzia 32b - 33b
    Mar 31 2024
    Preventing harmful human strife takes priority over reducing animal distress • How should one prioritize the returning of objects lost by oneself, by one's rebbe, and by one's father? • What should one prioritize in Torah study? • The culpability for sins committed willfully yet in ignorance is less than the culpability for issuing erroneous rulings borne out of inadequate study • Does the owner or the guardian of an object that was stolen receive the fine levied against the apprehended thief?
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Bava Metzia 25b - 26b
    Mar 24 2024

    Laws pertaining to a lost object hidden in a wall • Finding an object in an Airbnb • Mordechai 258 silver plated tin: sold or found?

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    53 mins