2017-02-02

The opening pages of Bava Batra discuss how neighbours can force one another to build a fence between their properties. As we discussed in a prior…

2017-01-29

“Rav Chisda said: One may not destroy a beit knesset until another one is built” (Bava Batra 3b). After spending close to two double-…

2017-01-26

There is a beautiful custom to recite “ma tovu, how goodly are your tents Jacob and your dwelling place Israel” (Bamidbar 24:6). These…

2017-01-24

The three Bavas - Kamma, Metzia and Batra - are the bread and butter of Talmudic learning. If I, like many others, began my formal learning of Talmud…