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Baba Batra 9: Can paying taxes be called giving charity?
Baba Batra 8: How do you build a Jewish city?
Baba Batra 7: Can you define residency?
Baba Batra 6: What were “Better Homes and Gardens” in Talmudic times?
Baba Batra 5: You paid my loan??? When???
Baba Metzia 114: Is the Prophet Eliyahu alive or dead or both?
Baba Metzia 113: Is napping straight after eating chulent a good idea?
What is the best way to give charity?
Baba Metzia 111: Who gets paid first, somebody who is rich, poor, or destitute?
Baba Metzia 110: Do you know just how serious withholding wages can be?
Baba Metzia 109: Professional responsibility really means professional accountability?
Baba Metzia 107: What is the number one cause of death?
Baba Metzia 106: There are six seasons of the year?
Baba Metzia 105: How do we gauge weak trees, people, and animals?
Baba Metzia 104:: Making the Best of a Bad Situation
Baba Metzia 103: Seriously, I need a contract to borrow something?
Baba Metzia 102: Who gets to keep the Mezuzah?
Baba Metzia 100: What do the Talmud and TV have in common?
Baba Metzia 99: When can a lender pullout of the deal?
Baba Metzia 98: Gilgul is not just about reincarnation?
Baba Metzia 97: Death by sex?
Baba Metzia 96: Is genius always a good thing?
Will the dead come back hungry?
Baba Metzia 93: What does the Talmud say about an “Act of God”?
Baba Metzia 91: When is holding an animal's genitals an act of kindness?
Baba Metzia 90: Did Tosafot know the secret to animal castration?
What was the ORIGINAL long weekend?
Why do people say gesundheit when you sneeze? Baba Metzia 88:
Baba Metzia 86: Do Jews do like the Romans when in Rome?
Baba Metzia 85: From male whore to a great rabbi
Baba Metzia 84: Should you worry about the evil eye?
Baba Metzia 83: WHAT!!! Worms come to a person's gravesite?
Baba Metzia 82: When does the spirit of the law trump the letter of the law?
Baba Metzia 81: Why should I lie?
Baba Metzia 75: Is it ALWAYS God’s fault?
Baba Metzia 74: What is the final act of an acquisition?
Baba Metzia 74: What is the final act of an acquisition?
Baba Metzia 72: Can you punish someone for a crime he hasn't committed yet?
Baba Metzia 71: Charity begins at home but then where does it go?
Baba Metzia 70: Can a Jew charge interest on a loan to a non-Jew?
Baba Metzia 69: Can you call out the judge over his decision?
What’s wrong with leather socks?
Baba Metzia 62: Who will greet you in the Next World?
Baba Metzia 60: Free guided tour of Hell?
Baba Metzia 61: The Torah demands that Jews are honest in business?
Baba Metzia 58: What's Happening in Hell?
A Rabbi Loved by Romans?
The Romans created ‘checks and balances’?
Baba Metzia 55: Torah law or Rabbinic, what’s the difference?
Baba Metzia 54: Can non-kosher animals be gifted to the Jerusalem Temple?
To see God’s Hand in our world is represented in the “bread of faith” known as the Matzah. To lose sight of God’s Hand in this world is represented by the Chometz.
Baba Metzia 53: Even ‘where’ you eat makes a difference?
The Vilna Gaon says that the Haggadah is a handbook for the entire path of history the Jews will travel from Avraham to Messiah
Baba Metzia 51: But isn’t that price fraud?
Did you register for this year’s Passover Offering?
Baba Metzia 49: Since when is honesty in business important?
Baba Metzia 48: What is called a sufficient down payment?
Baba Metzia 47: What’s the Rabbis problem with a cash deal?
Baba Metzia 44: What is the special Rabbinic “business curse“?
Baba Metzia 43: He only borrowed it for a few minutes, so what?
Baba Metzia 42: There is a blessing recited over counting money?
Baba Metzia 41: What is called "illegal use" of someone else's property?
Baba Metzia 40: How should we calculate net profit after expenses?
Baba Metzia 39: What!?!? He had a beard???
Baba Metzia 35: How do Jews deal with the Repo Man?
Would you really like to teach the world to sing?
Baba Metzia 33: How exactly was the Mishna born?
Baba Metzia 32: Does a veterinarian need to make house calls?
Baba Metzia 30: Do you need to be aware of your guest's evil eye?
Baba Metzia 29: What are the 3 BEST ways to lose your money?
Baba Metzia 28: Returning a Lost Object
Baba Metzia 27: Would you loan your wallet?
Baba Metzia 26: To Catch a Thief, Crime Control
Baba Metzia 25: How do you know who the lost object’s real owner is?
Baba Metzia 23: Why should bread deserve your respect?
Baba Metzia 22: Why does Torah study require intellectual honesty?
Baba Metzia 21: Can it always be worse?
Baba Metzia 20: Is Talmud really hair splitting?
Where did Creation begin?
Is God aware of the differences between man and woman?
Baba Metzia 15: What is the basic text of a sales contract?
Baba Metzia 14: What if you did buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
Can you guess which was the good prostitute?
Baba Metzia 12: Is it really called stealing candy from a baby?
How did women of the Talmud make themselves beautiful?
Do you believe the Rabbi if he tells you it is kosher?
Would a teacher strike a troubled student with a hammer?
What are good omens for a new year?
Baba Metzia 4: Theft, Stealing, Robbery
Baba Metzia 2: Can You be the Judge?
Baba Kama 119: Can You Keep What’s Not Yours?
Baba Kama 118: Can you void buying stolen goods?
Baba Kama 118: Can you void buying stolen goods?
Baba Kama 116: Lion Escorts?
Why Should I Share My Wealth?
Baba Kama 113: Will paying taxes bring you closer to God?
Baba Kama 112: Talmudic Repo-Men? Seriously?
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