The Daily Mishnah with Benedict

If a thief is robbed by another thief, does he still need to repay? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaKama For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What if the thief can't remember whether he brought back the stolen object? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaKama For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What does it take to be a truly holy person?  For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaKama For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Financial judgements are about more than money! Feelings matter too. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If you find a lost object, who owns it? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

When are we forbidden to return a lost object? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How many sheets make a bundle? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

When are "finders keepers"? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Maybe we shouldn't return the lost object! Maybe we just leave it where we found it! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

For how long do we need to announce our find? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

How do we deal with deceitful claimants? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How many times do we have to return a runaway cow to its owner? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Who takes precedence, your father or your teacher? And what about you? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

If you rent a cow and it dies, are you liable? What if you borrow it? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You've stolen money but you can't remember who from! What's your liability? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia  For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Responsibilities of a custodian! Do they include shrinkage? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia  For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If your friend leaves a barrel in your care and it breaks, who is responsible? What if you've moved it? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

At what point does a custodian become negligent? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What kind of liability does the custodian take on if he uses the deposit for his own purposes? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What does God do when people don't stand by their promises? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Price-gouging? In the time of the Mishnah? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How much weight can a coin lose before becoming invalid? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Number games with fives! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can you be ripped off when buying a Torah scroll or a pearl? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Which is worse, ripping someone off or insulting them in public? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you "steal" someone's eye? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Taking interest on a loan? Using financial engineering to avoid interest? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Using financial engineering to create a synthetic interest payment! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Using "benefit in kind" to create a synthetic interest payment for an equity stake! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you pay interest to a non-Jew? Or charge interest when you lend to a non-Jew? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you trade forward contracts in commodities? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Interest on a service provided? Helping someone else pay or take interest? Interest in the form of words? Stay away! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Hiring workers or equipment? What if they go on strike half-way through the job? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Hiring a plough? Or hiring out a donkey? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How much can you overload a camel? Or a donkey? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Paid and unpaid custodians? Is a lender paid for his loan? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How well do you have to feed your workers? Is dessert a requirement? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How much of the employer's food is a labourer entitled to eat at work? Is there a limit? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Is there a limit to a shepherd's liability for damage? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you make a contract to avoid an obligation that the Torah mandates? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You borrow one cow and rent another. One of them dies, but you don't know which is which! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Your olive trees are washed away into your neighbour's field! Who owns the oil? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You fix an annual rent for your house. What happens in a leap-year, with thirteen months? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You rent a field. What happens if its spring dries up? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You rent a field but you don't want to weed it! What happens? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Crop rotation in the time of the Mishnah! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If you rent a field, can you cut a beam out of the sycamore tree? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

For how long can you delay paying your workers? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Echoes of Shylock! We can't take a person's life as a pledge. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Neighbours' building disputes! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

More neighbours' building disputes! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Passive-aggressive neighbour! Do we listen to him? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How do we solve an insoluble problem? We compromise. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Some of your workers have an absolute right to eat from your fields! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You borrow a cow and the lender has it sent over, but it dies on the way! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaMetzia For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Neighbours' disputes and the right to privacy. For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Must a neighbour share the cost of the fence? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Are we permitted to make our homes in a gated community? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra  For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can we divide a Torah scroll? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Neighbourhood pollution! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can we protest that a school should not be located "in my backyard"? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com  

Can we locate a dovecote in our backyard? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can we locate a threshing-floor in our backyard? And do trees make a town look more beautiful? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can we make a neighbour prune a tree near our cistern? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How close to the neighbours can we plant a tree? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How do we establish that we have title to land? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What if the original landowner is on a trip to Spain? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you stake a claim by moving your chickens in? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you stake a claim from your drainpipe? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Privacy! Can you build a window facing out onto your neighbour's? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If you sell a house, is the cellar included? If not, how will you access it afterwards? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

If you sell a courtyard, is the bath-house included? What about the olive-press and the mortar? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Selling a bath-house? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com

Selling a city? Can you do such a thing? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

There's more to life than money! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Selling a ship? Or a donkey? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Selling a bee-hive? Or a cow? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

When can we retract or cancel a sale? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What if the barrel breaks? Or the price moves before the sale is complete? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

You send a child to the shops to buy oil. He spills the oil on the ground and loses the change. Who is responsible? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Selling to the public? You need just weights, and you need to keep them in good shape! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Selling wine? Are you responsible if it goes sour? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How large a house should newly-weds move into? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How much space on the road can a funeral procession take up? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How much space do you need for a family burial vault? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How do you measure land for sale? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

How do you measure land for sale and what if you make a mistake? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Selling half your field? Which half changes hands? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Who inherits if there are no sons? Why? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Do women have equal inheritance rights? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can you disinherit one of your children? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Long-lost brother just shown up to claim his inheritance? Or even a son? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Sibling rivalry! Can daughters take precedence? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Can we discriminate against a man because of his gender? What about someone whose gender is fluid? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If you improve the estate, do you have to share the upside with your brothers? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If you shower your betrothed with gifts but never tie the knot, can you reclaim them? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

If you're on the point of death, can you bequeath assets verbally, without signing a document? What about on shabbat? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What if two people die suddenly and we don't know who died first? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

Different ways of writing a legal document? Folded and smooth! For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com 

What if the document is ambiguous? What if part of it is erased? For the source sheet, look here: https://tinyurl.com/MishnatBavaBatra For other resources go to https://www.thedailymishnah.com