Money

Couldn't G-d have just made a world where nobody needed any money. A look at the very spiritual side of economics.

This Talmud course will be exploring and analyzing the fifth chapter of tractate Bava Kama, which focuses – among other subjects – on fundamental principles related to monetary litigations and the court procedures for adjudicating them.

We continue to analyze the debate between Rav and Shmuel related to cancelling a sale, and probe the underlying reasoning for each position and thereby discover important monetary principles.

Careful examination of a few seemingly extra words in the Talmud, leads us to an argument between Rav and Shmuel related to cancelling a sale.

In this lesson we continue to explore the underlying principles on how to resolve cases of monetary doubt.

The Talmud discusses how to resolve monetary disputes. When presented with a monetary doubt, do we have the two sides split the pot or is the burden of proof on the claimant?

Meet your Talmudic adjuster! This lesson introduces some guiding principles for liability of damages caused by collision of one’s possession and property.

How can we most fairly apportion the communal burden? Who should pay, and how much? And who decides where this money should go?

Modern governments use their authority to tax their constituents and pay for public works and social services. How did Jewish communities understand their roles in furthering the welfare of the people? What is the Torah view on how a society can express c...

Is wealth a mark of sin, a sign that a person has greedily taken too much and necessarily impoverished others? Is poverty a sign of laziness, an outer indication of a poor character? We explore the Jewish view on why there is inequality in wealth, and wha...