BAVA KAMA 2 (3 Teves) - Today's Dafyomi material has been dedicated in memory of Hagaon Rav Yisroel Zev Gustman Ztz"L (author of "Kuntresei Shiurim") and his wife, Rebbetzin Sarah Gustman (daughter of Hagaon Rav Meir Bassin, a Dayan in Vilna) in honor of the Yahrzeit of the Rebbetzin. Sponsored by a number of Rav Gustman's Talmidim (Yechiel Wachtel, Harav Naftoli Weinberg, and Harav Avrohom Feldman).
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Why mustn’t a Jew sell a field to an Akum?
Another Jew may want this property, and it violates Bar Metzra.
The Akum may cause trouble for his Jewish neighbors.
It will be more difficult for the neighborhood to put together a Minyan.
It’s not fair to the Jewish neighbor’s wife, who now has no one from whom she can borrow milk and cheese.
The Torah tells us Lo Sechanaim.
Why does the Braisa say that someone who receives something from a tax collector should give it back to its original owner?
It still belongs to the original owner, for the tax collector was not Koneh it with the owner’s Yiush.
Midas Chasidus.
So the original owner won’t defame him as a thief, which will cause great Machlokes.
Machlokes between answers A and B.
Machlokes between answers A and C.
Does a person own the bees that live in his field?
Yes, Mideoraisa; since he owns the beehive that the bees call home, he owns the bees as well.
No. Bees fly wherever they want, and a person can’t own something that he can't control.
He owns them Miderabanon.
He owns honeybees, because people are Makpid on them, but does not own non-honeybees, because people are not Makpid on them.
He owns bees that were born in his field, and does not own their parents, which flew there from a different field.
When does Maisee’ach Lefi Tumo permit a definite Deoraisa?
When establishing someone as a Kohen.
When permitting a woman to remarry by declaring her husband dead.
When determining who owns bees that flew from one field to another.
When establishing someone as a Kohen, and when permitting a Shevuya to marry a Kohen.
When clarifying if a leaky milk container in the fridge leaked into a pan of chicken.
Someone spilled out his wine to save someone else’s honey. How quickly must he be repaid for the wine?
Thirty days, like a Stam Halvah.
He goes to Beis Din to open a file, and as long as it takes.
He asks the owner of the honey for a Shtar or blank check before he collects the honey.