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Bava Batra 59 - August 23, 19 Av Aug 23, 2024

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Why can a resident of a courtyard insist on a gutter pipe being moved, but not a gutter itself? If a resident has an item that juts out into a neighbor's airspace or a window that faces the neighbor's property, can the resident create a chazaka if the neighbor has not complained? Creating a chazaka depends on whether or not it is something we would expect the neighbor to complain about. If they will unlikely complain, their lack of complaint doesn't enable the other to create a chazaka. What types of things does a neighbor not even have the right to complain about?

Bava Batra 58 - August 22, 18 Av Aug 22, 2024

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Rabbi Bena'a measured burial caves to mark the locations of the graves for reasons of ritual purity. What happened when he reached Avraham's and Adam's graves? What was he allowed to see and what was he not allowed to see? A story is told of an amgosh (a Persian priest or magician) who entered the graves of others to take things or remove bodies from the caves. In a separate story about Rabbi Bena'a, he was imprisoned by non-Jewish authorities but later released due to his great intelligence and appointed as a judge. As a judge, he critiqued some signs hung at the entrance to their city, and they incorporated his edits into the signs.

The Mishna discusses various items that may or may not create a chazaka (presumptive right) depending on various factors, including sizes - such as a gutter, the spout of a gutter, a ladder, and windows.

Bava Batra 57 - August 21, 17 Av Aug 21, 2024

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Today's daf is sponsored by Deborah Aschheim (Weiss) in loving memory of her father David Aschheim z"l, whose 44th yahrzeit is today. "You left us too soon at the age of 56. Although your Jewish education was interrupted because of WWII, you always ensured that I got a Jewish/Zionist education. You would be proud of the legacy you left: my aliyah, my continuous learning with Hadran and the achievements of Eitan and David in the International Little League championships, played in Kovno Poland. Eitan proudly carried the Israeli flag on the soil that our ancestors fled in 1900."

In what type of a case can brothers both testify for someone regarding a three-year chazaka and in what type of case would their testimony not be accepted? The Mishna lists types of acts that can create a chazaka of possession in another's field and which actions can not. Different explanations are suggested to explain the difference between the actions that can/cannot create a chazaka. Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Bena'a make certian recommendations regarding appropriate behavior including: not looking at women when they launder their clothes, how men should dress, how to set the table in a way that will be neat and minimize mess, on which side of the table the ring should jut out so it doesn't harm others or cause children to play with it and what should one store under one's bed (only slippers so it shouldn't be cluttered).

Bava Batra 56 - August 20, 16 Av Aug 20, 2024

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If there is no border, how does one determine how much of the field was acquired by the buyer? The sea quill was used by Yehoshua to demarcate borders between the tribes when they conquered the land of Israel. In the book of Yehoshua, some cities were listed but not others – why? The boundaries given to Moshe are those used to determine which land is obligated in tithes. The ones excluded from this are the lands that belonged to other neighbors (not from the seven nations) - the Kini, Knizi and Kadmoni. There is a debate among three rabbis about where geographically these lands were. The Mishna and Gemara discuss issues regarding testimony for one who is trying to establish a three-year chazaka. Can three groups of witnesses testify each about a separate year? Is this considered a whole unit of testimony (which is acceptable) or a part of a testimony (which is not acceptable)? If two witnesses testified about all three years but disagreed about which type of produce the person benefitted from, would their testimony be accepted?

Bava Batra 55 - August 19, 15 Av Aug 19, 2024

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Rav Huna bought land from a gentile, but after he paid for the land and before a document was written, another Jew came and acquired the land through chazaka, by plowing a bit in the field. Rav Nachman ruled as per Shmuel's ruling that the land belongs to the other Jew. Rav Huna challenged Rav Nachman by suggesting that if Rav Nachman were to hold by Shmuel, then he should also hold by Shmuel's other ruling that if one plows in an ownerless field, one only acquires the area where one plowed. However, Rav Nachman responded that on that issue he holds like Rav Huna himself who held like Rav that the entire field belongs to the one who plowed, even if one plowed in a very small area. Rabba quoted three laws he heard from Ukvan bar Nechemia the exilarch in the name of Shmuel. The first is that dina d'mlachuta dina, that the law of the land is the law. The second and third are based on the first. In Persia, a chazaka can be created on land if one lives on a property for forty years. The commentaries disagree about the relevance of this halakha in Jewish law. If the king seizes the property of one who does not pay the land tax and sells it to another Jew, the sale is valid, as that is the law of the land. There is a debate about whether this applies only to land seized from those who did not pay the land tax or also to those who did not pay the head tax. If there is a border or a sea quill plant in the middle of a field, this is considered a separation for various laws. However, there is a debate whether the separation is only for the purposes of acquiring land that was ownerless, or also for pea'h and ritual impurity, and possibly also for laws of carrying on Shabbat. The Gemara explains the halakhic relevance of a separation between fields for pea'h, ritual impurity, and Shabbat.