Bava Kama: chapter 8
Bava Kamma 84
A famous Bava Kamma sugya on why the Torah's 'eye for an eye' is understood as monetary compensation, the five components of personal injury payment, and why Babylonian courts couldn't judge pain and embarrassment damages.
Bava Kamma 85
Covers the halachic estimate for pain caused by injury (tza'ar), how lost work time is calculated, and whether multiple injuries to the same victim are each compensated separately.
Bava Kamma 86
Covers who is liable for boshet (embarrassment payments) -- including cases involving a sleeping, naked, or disabled victim -- and why a blind person is excluded from certain punishments but not from collecting boshet.
Bava Kamma 87
Covers why a death-penalty case exempts the perpetrator from paying damages, and a father's right to collect for his minor daughter's lost earning capacity and medical costs.
Bava Kamma 88
Covers whether a slave counts as a valid witness, the three ways acquisition of land differs from acquisition of a slave, and a dispute over a wife's right to sell property given to her.
Bava Kamma 89
Covers the rabbinic enactment (Takanas Usha) governing a wife's right to sell property she brought into the marriage, and why selling away ketubah rights endangers her marital security.
Bava Kamma 90
Covers a half-slave/half-free person's damage liability, and why the court relies on witness testimony rather than physically inspecting the weapon used in an assault.
Bava Kamma 91
Covers estimating compensation for a slave's injury and freedom, the debate over whether self-harm is ever permitted, and the halachos of damaging one's own plants or property.
Bava Kamma 92
Covers the halachic consequences of refusing to forgive someone who caused you damage, closing with a series of proverbs on humility, hospitality, and avoiding the role of persecutor.