Bava Metzia

118 pages summarized and illuminated.

• 2Two People Found a Garment (Finds)
• 3Borrower Admits Loan In Part (Finds)
• 4The case of "here, it (your money) is yours" (Finds)
• 5No Oath in the Case of "Here, it is Yours?" (Finds)
• 6Why Accept An Oath? (Finds)
• 7Two People Found a Document (Finds)
• 8One Lifts a Found Object, Intending to Acquire it for his Fellow (Finds)
• 9Rider Sees a Find (Finds)
• 10How to Get Things (Finds)
• 11Acquisition with the Help of a Field (Finds)
• 12To Whom the Finds Belong (Finds)
• 13Loans and Real Estate (Finds)
• 14Power of Attorney (Finds)
• 15Repossession of a Stolen Field (Finds)
• 16When the Found Loan Document IS Returned (Finds)
• 17One is not Believed About his Debt (Finds)
• 18One Found Bills of Divorce, Sickbed Will, Etc. (Finds)
• 19How to Write a Will under the Torah Law (Finds)
• 20The Found Documents That Are Returned (Finds)
• 21Lost Objects that the Finder May Keep (Finds)
• 22Despair without being Aware (Finds)
• 23Basic Rules of Lost Objects (Finds)
• 24Going Beyond the Letter of the Law (Finds)
• 25Found Items One has to Announce (Finds)
• 26Objects Lost in a Rental House (Finds)
• 27Are Identifying Marks Torah Law? (Finds)
• 28How Lost Objects are Announced (Finds)
• 29How to Take Care of Found Objects (Finds)
• 30When One is not Required to Return a Lost Object (Finds)
• 31What is Considered a Lost Object (Finds)
• 32Unloading and Loading (Finds)
• 33Suffering of Sentient Beings (Finds)
• 34The Four custodians (Finds)
• 35A Deposit that was Stolen (Finds)
• 36Custodian Finds another Custodian in his Stead (Finds)
• 37A Thief Returns Stolen Money to Two People (Finds)
• 38Deposited Produce Begins to Spoil (Finds)
• 39Caring for a Captive's Property (Finds)
• 40Produce is Depleted (Finds)
• 41Custodian Breaks the Keg (Finds)
• 42Negligence of Unpaid Custodian (Finds)
• 43Custodian Takes and Uses the Deposit (Finds)
• 44Last Thoughts of Appropriation - and on to Sales (Finds)
• 45Coins Used for Symbolic Exchange (Finds)
• 46Acquiring Money Through the Method of "Exchange" (Finds)
• 47How is the "Exchange" Acquisition Performed? (Finds)
• 48Acquiring by Paying Money (Finds)
• 49That One Should Abide by his Word (Finds)
• 50Both the Seller and the Buyer Can't Cheat (Finds)
• 51No Price Fraud for Personal Possessions (Finds)
• 52Fraud with Eroded Money (Finds)
• 53Redeeming Second Tithe (Finds)
• 54Adding One-Fifth (Finds)
• 55Prutahs and One-Fifth Surcharges (Finds)
• 56Things not Subject to Price Fraud (Finds)
• 57No Oath for Things Not Subject to Price Fraud (Finds)
• 58Wronging with Words (Finds)
• 59Not to Offend Anybody with Words
• 60Deceptive Business Practices (Finds)
• 61Two Forms of Interest: Neshech and Tarbit
• 62Interest is Collectable in Court (Finds)
• 63When Forward Contracts are Permitted (Finds)
• 64Forward Contract on Gourds (Finds)
• 65Early Payment is Allowed (Finds)
• 66Heter Iska and Penalty for Late Payment (Finds)
• 67Excessive Penalty on Default is Illegal (Finds)
• 68Joint Venture Avoids Interest Prohibition (Finds)
• 69Half-and-half Venture (Finds)
• 70When Interest is Allowed (Finds)
• 71Taking Interest from Non-Jews is also Prohibited (Finds)
• 72Guarantor and Loan Assumption (Finds)
• 73Forward Contracts with High Risk (Finds)
• 74Commodity Loans (Finds)
• 75When Commodity Loans are Allowed (Finds)
• 76Hiring Craftsmen (Finds)
• 77Labor Laws (Finds)
• 78Rental Agreements (Finds)
• 79Boat Rentals (Finds)
• 80Transportation Rentals (Finds)
• 81What Type of Guardian Are You? (Finds)
• 82Porter Breaks a Keg (Finds)
• 83Negligent Porters Break a Keg of Wine (Finds)
• 84Robber Knows his Trade (Finds)
• 85Teaching Torah to Children (Finds)
• 86The Story of Rabbah Bar Nachmani (Finds)
• 87Workers Eat While Harvesting (Finds)
• 88Ox Eats While Harvesting (Finds)
• 89Workers Prepare to Eat More (Finds)
• 90Who Can Muzzle? (Finds)
• 91Muzzling an Animal and Mother who is a Harlot (Finds)
• 92How Much Can a Worker Eat? (Finds)
• 93Dealing in Food Entitlement (Finds)
• 94Conditions in Contracts (Finds)
• 95Deriving Borrower's Law With an "A Fortiori" Argument (Finds)
• 96Borrower's Exemption from Liability (Finds)
• 97Mice Kill Cat (Finds)
• 98Cow Half-Borrowed, Half-Rented (Finds)
• 99Responsibility in Transit (Finds)
• 100Disputes Between Buyer and Seller (Finds)
• 101Eviction Notice (Finds)
• 102Rights and Obligations of a Landlord and his Tenant (Finds)
• 103Field Leases (Finds)
• 104Calamities in the Field and Laymen's Contracts (Finds)
• 105Disagreements Between a Tenant and a Field Owner (Finds)
• 106General vs. Localized Calamities (Finds)
• 107Natural Events vs. Luck (Finds)
• 108The Right of the Adjoining Property Holder (Finds)
• 109Short-term vs. Long-term Leases (Finds)
• 110Timely Payment of a Hired Worker (Finds)
• 111Prohibition Again Delaying Payment to an Employee (Finds)
• 112Delaying Payments for Contractual Work (Finds)
• 113Lender's Right to Take Borrower's Security (Finds)
• 114Prophet Elijah and Rabba Bar Avuha (Finds)
• 115What May Not be Taken as a Security (Finds)
• 116The Ground and the Upper Floor of a House (Finds)
• 117The Upper Apartment's Floor Fell In (Finds)
• 118Two Gardens (Finds)
• 119The Law is Like Rabbi Shimon (Finds)