A baraita on Bava Batra 130b seems to declare that we don’t rule from a straight reading of the Gemara. Thus: תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: אֵין לְמֵדִין

On Bava Metzia 116, Rami bar Chama poses two questions. The Mishna had stated a kelal, a general rule, that (i) when someone has higher

While reading Bava Batra 103a, I noticed that the sugya discussed densities and the kav measure; how much someone would willingly forgo; comments by specific

I sold you a barrel of wine and it subsequently turned to vinegar. Who bears financial responsibility? Rav says that if it turned during the

In Bava Batra 90b, fourth-generation Rav Pappa bar Shmuel instituted a measure of three kefiza. His rabbinic colleagues object to him saying that this conflicts

In Bava Batra 83a, Rabbi Yirmeya raises two dilemmas. Shmuel had earlier specified a distance between a set of three trees to be considered one

In Bava Batra 75a, Rabba thrice quotes Rabbi Yochanan about messianic times —- Hashem making a meal for the righteous from the Leviathan’s flesh; a

The mishna on Bava Batra 64b discusses someone who sells his house without explicitly mentioning in the contract that he’s also selling the cistern on

In Bava Batra 47b, we encounter the “Sicarius,” in a quote from Mishnah Gittin 5:6. That Mishna lays out a law that, if one first

We recently read that Rav Adda bar Abba died prematurely (Bava Batra 22a). Various Pumbeditan Amoraim felt guilty for his death. They each recount their

As we explored last week, Bava Batra begins by discussing hezek re’iyah, literally damage by sight, and whether it is called “damage.” This isn’t literal