Bava Basra (Iyun)
Bava Basra 30a — Iyun
A Bava Basra 12 sugya on a defendant who claims he was too far away or too busy to have heard a protest against his chazakah.
Bava Basra 29a–30a — Iyun
Continues the Bava Basra sugya on chazakah, working through the three-year window for a valid protest and the excuses that can extend it.
Bava Basra 32a — Iyun
A Kesubos sugya opening with the case of King Yannai's lineage, working through the Rashba's position on chazakas eishes ish, Rebbi Akiva Eiger's question, and why the Chachamim relaxed the rules of eidus to prevent agunos.
Bava Basra 32a — Iyun
Continues the Kesubos sugya on chazakas eishes ish, examining Tosafos's argument from the precise wording of isha dayka u'minsva, and the Chasam Sofer's response to using photographs as modern evidence.
Bava Basra 48b — Iyun
A Kiddushin sugya on the Rambam's position that marriage can be effected through biah, Rashi's objection to Rav Yosef's simple reading of the sugya, and the halachos governing a get given under coercion.
Bava Basra 6b — Iyun
A detailed Bava Kama/Bava Basra sugya on a neighbor's obligation to build a wall for privacy, the Rambam-Rashi machloket on measuring the damage, and how this connects to an ox's liability for damage.
Bava Basra 8b — Iyun
A sugya on the two tzedakah funds (tamchui and kupah), whether community leaders can shift designated funds, and when a mitzvah of tzedakah is considered fully completed -- compared to when ownership transfers in kiddushin.
Bava Basra 11a — Iyun
A detailed Eruvin-style sugya on dividing a shared yard, the machloket between Rav Huna and Rav Chisda, and how the Bach and Beis Yosef understood the required door measurements.
Bava Basra 13a — Iyun
A sugya on whether a master may free a half-slave to enable a mitzvah like the Korban Pesach, weighing the prohibition against freeing a slave against the value of enabling procreation or a mitzvah.
Bava Basra 28a — Iyun
A detailed Bava Basra sugya on chazakah for houses and fields, the shor hamu'ad's three-gore rule, and a long dispute between Rishonim over whether a sign (siman) or a cause (ta'am) determines the halacha.
Bava Basra 29a — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on the halachos of chazakas habatim, examining the Rambam and Raavad's dispute over requiring witness testimony, and the Chasam Sofer's reading of how shlichus functions in establishing the chazakah.
Bava Basra 29a — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on Abaye's objection to the basic chazakas habatim rule, the distinction between a claim based on absence versus denial, and the machloket between the Rambam and the Tur over how the halacha is worded.
Bava Basra 29a — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on why a chazakah claim requires a definite assertion rather than a vague one, the Tur and Rashbam's alignment on this point, and why testimony about the land's existence is treated differently from testimony verifying who held it.
Bava Basra 29a — Iyun
A detailed chazakah sugya on the three-year rule for land ownership, public rights-of-way, and whether witnesses need to have seen the possession at night as well as day.
Bava Basra 29a — Iyun
A chazakah sugya on continuous benefit from a property, witness bias (noge'a b'eidus), and an introduction to the Mishnah's four avos nezikin in Bava Kama.
Bava Basra 29b — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on the Rava-Rav Nachman debate over who carries the burden of proof in a chazakas habatim claim, the role of a mechaah in spoiling an established chazakah, and the Rashbam's wording of what counts as a complete chazakah.
Bava Basra 29b — Iyun
A deep Bava Basra sugya on chazakas habatim -- the Rav Nachman/Rava machloket on burden of proof, the function of a formal protest (mechaah), and whether non-consecutive years of possession still count.
Bava Basra 30a — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on what counts as a valid protest (mechaah) against someone's chazakah, the Nimukei Yosef's emphasis on the final year, and the machloket between the Ramban and Nimukei Yosef over how the three-year count works.
Bava Basra 31b — Iyun
Continues the Bava Basra 31b sugya of two contradicting pairs of witnesses -- hachchashah versus hazamah -- and whether the witnesses can still be believed in unrelated matters.
Bava Basra 31b — Iyun
A detailed Bava Basra sugya on contradictory testimony (hachashah) versus formally disqualified witnesses (hazamah), the Rav Huna-Rav Chisda machloket, and how this affects a thief's credibility in court.
Bava Basra 31b — Iyun
Continues the sugya on contradictory testimony, exploring the Rambam-Tur machloket on a three-tiered hierarchy of witness reliability.
Bava Basra 32a — Iyun
Examines the Tosafos on Chazakas HaBatim discussing the case of trei u'trei -- two witnesses against two witnesses -- and whether it's treated as a Rabbinic-level doubt that defers to the existing chazakah.
Bava Basra 32a — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on chazakas habatim (the three-year possession rule), continuing into a parallel case of a guarantor's shtar, and a related Gittin case of a forged document.
Bava Basra 32a — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on a field claimed by both a document and a chazakah, Rav Yosef's challenge to relying on the shtar alone, and the Rashbam's position on the migu argument raised in the case.
Bava Basra 32b — Iyun
A Gemara sugya built around the story of Rabbah bar Shershom and a rumor that he was holding an orphan's field, working through the Rashbam and Tosafos's dispute over how much weight a קול carries, and how a chazakah is broken by a mechaah.
Bava Basra 32b — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on a rumor that someone was wrongly holding an orphan's field, the dispute between Rashbam and Abaye over returning it, and how a chazakah can be broken by a mechaah.
Bava Basra 32b — Iyun
A Bava Basra sugya on the halachos of collecting an orphan's debt, the Rashbam and Tosafos's dispute over the timing of a rumor, and why the chazakah on a minor's field waits until he reaches bar mitzvah.
Bava Basra 48b — Iyun
An iyun shiur on Bava Basra 48b (perek Chezkas HaBatim), tracing the sugya of agav onsei gamar u'makneh -- that a sale made under duress is still valid because the seller ultimately agrees to it -- and analyzing whether the same logic validates a get given under duress, or a kiddushin made with money whose halachic force rests on rabbinic enactment.