What happens if your fiancé dies, or calls off the wedding before you get married? Who keeps the ring? The dowry? All of this is tackled on the daf today. The gem comes from an interesting situation where a man suspects his fiancé does not have a perfect sense of smell – and that’s enoughContinue reading “Bava Batra 146”
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Bava Batra 125
I just watched the live action version of The Jungle Book. Unlike many Disney live action remakes, it wasn’t just an exact copy of the cartoon version. This one even had a different ending! (I won’t spoil it.) But, it’s not just Disney that has two versions of the same tale. On our daf today,Continue reading “Bava Batra 125”
Bava Batra 117
A beautiful statement on the daf today. In our conversation about inheritance, the daf finally turns to the most important inheritance of them all, the mass inheritance that happened when the Jewish people, children of the slaves, finally enter the land of Israel. There are two verses that tell us how the land will beContinue reading “Bava Batra 117”
Bava Batra 113
I remember, as an early teen, my mom wanted me to learn to play golf. She told me that, in business, a lot of deals are made on the golf course. If we were to believe television, then a lot of business deals are done at strip clubs, and at night (my mom did notContinue reading “Bava Batra 113”
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 