Daf Yomi Bava Metzia

Join Rabbi Gidon Rothstein for a daily shiur of the Daf Yomi Masechet Bava Metziah given each morning from the Young Israel of Scarsdale, New York. For the previous masechet, CLICK HERE for the Daf Yomi Bava Kamma course. For the next masechet, Bava Batra, CLICK HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: Classes are NOT held on Shabbat (Saturday) or Jewish holidays. For those days and any other days when the teacher may not be available at the regularly scheduled time, a pre-recorded lesson will be posted. The live classes will take place Sundays at 7:30am EST and Monday-Friday at 6:15am EST.”
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 2–ב”מ ב
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 4–ב”מ ד
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 5–ב”מ ה
Bava Metzia 5a and Bava Metzia 5b, more on what claims obligate an oath.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 6–ב”מ ו
Bava Metzia 6a and Bava Metzia 6b, what we do and don’t suspect of people, what grabbing accomplishes.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 7–ב”מ ז
Bava Metzia 7a and Bava Metzia 7b, figuring out the split of contested objects.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 8–ב”מ ח
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 9–ב”מ ט
Bava Metzia 9a and Bava Metzia 9b, riding vs. steering and a new Mishnah
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 11-ב”מ יא
Bava Metzia 11a and Bava Metzia 11b, what kind of property acquires.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 12–ב”מ יב
Bava Metzia 12a and Bava Metzia 12b, which of other people’s findings belong to a person.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 13–ב”מ יג
Bava Metzia 13a and Bava Metzia 13b, what to do with a found shetar.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 14–ב”מ יד
Bava Metzia 14a and Bava Metzia 14b, responsibilities for sales, where achrayut does or doesn’t work.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 15–ב”מ טו
Bava Metzia 15a and Bava Metzia 15b, who pays what in waht kinds of foreclosures.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 16–ב”מ טז
Bava Metzia 16a and Bava Metzia 16b, a thief’s lengths to be trustworthy.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 18–ב”מ יח
Bava Metzia 18a and Bava Metzia 18b, more on when we can return lost documents.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 19–ב”מ יט
Bava Metzia 19a and Bava Metzia 19b, ensuring that returning lost documents does not disadvantage third parties.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 20–ב”מ כ
Bava Metzia 20a and Bava Metzia 20b, more kinds of found documents and what to do with them.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 21–ב”מ כא
Bava Metzia 21a and Bava Metzia 21b, finishing the first chapter, starting a discussion of how to know when one must return a lost object.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 23–ב”מ כג
Bava Metzia 23a and Bava Metzia 23b, clarifying what kinds of signs prove ownership of lost objects.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 25–ב”מ כה
Bava Metzia 25a and Bava Metzia 25b, examples of signs that require announcing.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 26– ב”מ כו
Bava Metzia 26a and Bava Metzia 26b, deciding location and likelihood of ownership.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 27–ב”מ כז
Bava Metzia 27a and Bava Metzia 27b, the idea of simanim, identifying markers, and whether the Torah ratified them.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 28–ב”מ כח
Bava Metzia 28a and Bava Metzia 28b, types of signs, and obligation of care for lost items.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 29–ב”מ כט
Bava Metzia 29a and Bava Metzia 29b, the care to take with lost items.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 30–ב”מ ל
Bava Metzia 30a and Bava Metzia 30b, standard of care with lost objects exceptions, and when one becomes obligated.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 32–ב”מ לב
Bava Metzia 32a and Bava Metzia 32b, unloading and loading, its obligation, limits, and relationship to returning lost property.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 34–ב”מ לד
Bava Metzia 34a and Bava Metzia 34b, when an owner will cede the thief’s extra payments to the watchperson who pays for it.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 35–ב”מ לה
Bava Metzia 35a and Bava Metzia 35b, assigning oaths, rebuying confiscated property.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 36–ב”מ לו
Bava Metzia 36a and Bava Metzia 36b, a shomer who gives to another.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 37–ב”מ לז
Bava Metzia 37a and Bava Metzia 37b, how to be sure to have returned what one is required to.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 39–ב”מ לט
Bava Metzia 39a and Bava Metzia 39b, caring for absentee owned property
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 40–ב”מ מ
Bava Metzia 40a and Bava Metzia 40b, expected losses of produce being watched.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 41–ב”מ מא
Bava Metzia 41a and Bava Metzia 41b, defining shelichut yad, partial stealing of someone else’s property.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 42–ב”מ מב
Bava Metzia 42a and Bava Metzia 42b, what counts as proper watching, with stories.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 43–ב”מ מג
Bava Metzia 43a and Bava Metzia 43b, rights of use to items left with a person, and wrongful use and its rules.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 44-ב”מ מד
Bava Metzia 44a and Bava Metzia 44b, finishing HaMafkid, starting HaZahav.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 47–ב”מ מז
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 48–ב”מ מח
Bava Metzia 48a and Bava Metzia 48b, rounding out the discussion of the effect of money on transactions.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 49–ב”מ מט
Bava Metzia 49a and Bava Metzia 49b, reneging on deals and defining mischarging.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 50–ב”מ נ
Bava Metzia 50a and Bava Metzia 50b, when mispricing is reversed or retracted.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 51–ב”מ נא
Bava Metzia 51a and Bava Metzia 51b, still figuring out who’s able to reverse a mispriced deal.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 53–ב”מ נג
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 54–ב”מ נד
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 57–ב”מ נז
Bava Metzia 57a and Bava Metzia 57b, the exceptional status of hekdesh and land.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 60–ב”מ ס
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 62–ב”מ סב
Bava Metzia 62a and Bava Metzia 62b, starting the process of differentiating Biblical from Rabbinic interest.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 63–ב”מ סג
Bava Metzia 63a and Bava Metzia 63b, when money can substitute for goods and still not be interest.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 64–ב”מ סד
Bava Metzia 64a and Bava Metzia 64b, advancing money for a lesser price, taking favors aside from a loan.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 65–ב”מ סה
Bava Metzia 65a and Bava Metzia 65b, how to structure loans/deals so as not to be considered interest.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 67–ב”מ סז
Bava Metzia 67a and Bava Metzia 67b, ways to pay more for a loan without it counting as interest.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 68–ב”מ סח
Bava Metzia 68a and Bava Metzia 68b, the salary to pay the active partner.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 70–ב”מ ע
Bava Metzia 70a and Bava Metzia 70b, workarounds for interest, for orphans and others.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 71–ב”מ עא
Bava Metzia 71a and Bava Metzia 71b, the damage we cause with Biblical interest, the ways a non Jew might make interest possible.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 72–ב”מ עב
Bava Metzia 72a and Bava Metzia 72b, improperly written documents and what can be collected from them.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 74–ב”מ עד
Bava Metzia 74a and Bava Metzia 74b, where in the process of its making we can consider a product already available.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 75–ב”מ עה
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 76–ב”מ עו
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 77-ב”מ עז
Bava Metzia 77a and Bava Metzia 77b, who bears the brunt when circustances change in an employment agreement
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 78-ב”מ עח
Bava Metzia 78a and Bava Metzia 78b, rectifying when things go wrong in a rental.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 79–ב”מ עט
Bava Metzia 79a and Bava Metzia 79b, who bears the pain when life goes wrong on rentals.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 81–ב”מ פא
Bava Metzia 81a and Bava Metzia 81b, the status of people watching items for others not as their primary involvement.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 83–ב”מ פג
Bava Metzia 83a and Bava Metzia 83b, finishing a perek, starting a perek. Story of Daf Yomi.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 84–ב”מ פד
Bava Metzia 84a and Bava Metzia 84b, stories of R. Elazar b. R. Shimon
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 85–ב”מ פה
Bava Metzia 85a and Bava Metzia 85b, many, many stories. Of suffering and its value.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 86–ב”מ פו
Bava Metzia 86a and Bava Metzia 86b, finishing up stories about persecution, turning to stories about big meals.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 88-ב”מ פח
Bava Metzia 88a and Bava Metzia 88b, when the obligation to tithe occurs.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 89–ב”מ פט
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 90–ב”מ צ
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 91–בבא מציעא צא
Bava Metzia 91a and Bava Metzia 91b, allowed and not allowed, by Torah law, Rabbinic law, or just the standards of propriety.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 92–ב”מ צב
Bava Metzia 92a and Bava Metzia 92b, by what power vested does the right to eat produce come
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 93–ב”מ צג
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 95–ב”מ צה
Bava Metzia 95a and Bava Metzia 95b, sources and derivations for the rules of shemirah be-be’alim.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 96–ב”מ צו
Bava Metzia 96a and Bava Metzia 96b, who counts as an owner for shemirah be-be’alim.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 97–ב”מ צז
Bava Metzia 97a and Bava Metzia 97b, finishing up shemirah be-be’alim, moving on to conflicting claims.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 98–ב”מ צח
Bava Metzia 98a and Bava Metzia 98b, conditions under which someone who doesn’t know if they owe money will have to pay anyway.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 99–ב”מ צט
Bava Metzia 99a and Bava Metzia 99b, when responsibility goes to the borrower.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 100-ב”מ ק
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 102–ב”מ קב
Bava Metzia 102a and Bava Metzia 102b, who pays what in odd rental situations.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 103–ב”מ קג
Bava Metzia 103a and Bava Metzia 103b, the responsibilities of landlord and tenant in sharecropping arrangements.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 104–ב”מ קד
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 106–ב”מ קו
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 107–ב”מ קז
Bava Metzia 107a and Bava Metzia 107b, what R. Yehuda taught Ravin.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 109–קט
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 110–ב”מ קי
Bava Metzia 110a and Bava Metzia 110b, claims, counterclaims, and improvements.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 111-ב”מ קיא
Bava Metzia 111a and Bava Metzia 111b, paying wages on time or not.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 112-ב”מ קיב
Bava Metzia 112a and Bava Metzia 112b, more on wages and paying on time or not.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 113–ב”מ קיג
Bava Metzia 113a and Bava Metzia 113b, collateral and many of its rules.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 114–ב”מ קיד
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 116–ב”מ קטז
Bava Metzia 116a and Bava Metzia 116b, collateral and living together, not always easy.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 117–ב”מ קיז
Bava Metzia 117a and Bava Metzia 117b, mutual obligations when joint property goes bad.
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 118–ב”מ קיח
Daf Yomi Bava Metzia: Bava Metzia 119–ב”מ קיט
Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has semicha from YU (RIETS) and a PhD from Harvard. He has worked in shul rabbinate, high school and adult education. He is the author of both fiction and non-fiction, most recently "As If We Were There: Readings for a Transformative Passover Experience". He lives in Riverdale, NY.