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Study Guide and Pictures Bava Batra 108
What is the purpose of the small and large ditches around a field?
Laws of inheritance begin with a list of which family relations inherit from each other and which bequeath to another. Some do both, some do neither and some do one or the other. Why does the Mishna begin with a son dying and passing on inheritance to his father and not the reverse case? The Torah delineates the order of who is first in the line of inheritance but the father is left off the list. The order in the Torah is son, daughter, brother, uncle (father's brother). Since the law that the father inherits the son is derived from a drasha, the author of the Mishna listed it first. According to the drasha, a father inherits if there are no children (before it goes to the brothers). Why not before the son? The son is considered the closest relative, as the son replaces his father for two laws, ye'ud and a consecrated ancestral field. But also a brother can replace his brother in yibum, so why isn't a brother considered closer?
If one receives a gift and doesn't immediately say, "I don't want it," the gift is acquired by that person, even if they later scream that they don't want it. However, if someone else accepted the gift on their behalf and they were in the room and did not protest, there is a debate between Rabban...
Published 11/10/24
In resolving a contradiction between two braitot, the Gemara answers that there is a tannaitic debate (between Rebbi and Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel) regarding the same issue that Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish were debating - when one acquires the produce do they acquire rights to the property...
Published 11/08/24