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Bava Batra (also Baba Batra; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בָּבָא בַּתְרָא, romanized: bāvā baṯrā, lit. 'The Last Gate') is the third of the three Talmudic tractates in the Talmud in the order Nezikin ; it deals with a person's responsibilities and rights as the owner of property.
Bava Kamma: 10 79 119 40 Bava Metzia: 10 101 119 35 Bava Batra: 10 86 176 39 Sanhedrin: 11 71 113 75 Makkot: 3 34 24 11 Shevu'ot: 8 62 49 49 Eduyot: 8 74 — — Avodah Zarah: 5 50 76 34 Pirkei Avot: 6 108 — — Horayot: 3 20 14 18 Seder Kodashim 11 masechtot 91 590 558 — Zevahim: 14 101 120 — Menachot: 13 93 110 — Chullin: 12 74 142 ...
The other two of these tractates are Bava Metzia ('The Middle Gate') and Bava Batra ('The Last Gate'): originally all three formed a single tractate called Nezikin, each "Bava" meaning "part" or "subdivision." Bava Kamma discusses various forms of damage and the compensation owed for them. Biblical laws dealing with the cases discussed in Bava ...
It contains thirty chapters, making it the longest tractate in the Mishnah. The Tosefta on Keilim consists of twenty-five chapters, [1] divided into Bava Kama ("First Gate"), Bava Metzia ("Middle Gate"), and Bava Batra ("Final Gate") of Keilim. The tractate discusses the laws of ritual purity and impurity pertaining to all types of vessels.
Between 1955 and 1973, ten volumes of the new edition were published, representing the text and the commentaries on the entire orders of Zera'im, Mo'ed and Nashim. In 1988, three volumes were published posthumously on the order of Nezikin, including tractates Bava Kama, Bava Metzia, and Bava Batra. Lieberman's work has been called the "pinnacle ...
In Bava Batra 73a, he was shown the gigantic bodies of the Israelites who had died in the desert, lying face upward, and where heaven and earth almost touched, so that he could watch the rotation of the celestial spheres around the earth in twenty-four hours. Some Rabbah's stories tell of the immense size of animals he saw.
Bava Batra (בבא בתרא , Last Gate) deals with civil matters, largely land ownership. 10 chapters. Sanhedrin ( סנהדרין , The Sanhedrin ) deals with the rules of court proceedings in the Sanhedrin , the death penalty, and other criminal matters. 11 chapters.
Portions of his commentary on the Talmud have been preserved, such as on the tractate Bava Batra (on large portions of the tractate where no commentary by Rashi is available), as well as the last chapter of tractate Pesachim. Rashbam's notes on the Bible are remarkable for brevity.