Bava Kama

Catalog description

This course will be an intensive, text-based shiur that will focus on the sugyot of geneva and gezeilah that appear in Masekhet Bava Kama. While anchored in the seventh perek, our study will also draw upon relevant material in the ninth and tenth perakim. Topics will include the respective definitions of and relationship between the prohibitions of geneivah and gezeilah, the nature of yei'ush, methods of acquisition for a ganav or gazlan including yei'ush, shinui ma'aseh, shinui ha'sheim, and shinui reshut, and an analysis of the additional kenasot of keifel and daled.