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Talmud: Baba Mezia Intensive (TI213, TI413)

Formerly Talmud: Baba Mezia Intensive (T223, T233)
Course Category: 
Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland - Inactive Courses
Length: 
65 hours (13 weeks); in addition, 247 hours of supervised peer study.
Location: 
Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland, 91 West Carlton Road, Suffern, New York.
Dates: 
September 1998 - July 2003.
Instructional delivery format: 
Traditional classroom model
Learner Outcomes: 
Prepare a textual, linguistic, and legal analysis of the applicable Aramaic Talmudic material; conceptualize and articulate the reasoning behind the various legal citations and opinions, honing and applying analytical skills to Talmudic explication, argumentation, and resolution as the basis for halochot analysis and final decision making; discuss classical Talmudic topical concepts and document a grasp of the technical as well as theoretical aspects of the Talmudic portions studied.
Instruction: 

The third chapter of the Tractate Baba Mezia discusses the obligations and liabilities of a custodian who has assumed responsibility for another's property. Students prepare the applicable Talmudic texts as well as the major halachic opinions of the rishonim and acharonim and the opinions of various other commentaries and decisors. The instructor guides students in understanding the issues raised and assists them to deduce and elucidate the crux of these issues. Topics include: responsibilities and liabilities of watchmen; the four categories of watchmen; owner's forfeiture of rights to thief's payment of double penalty in favor of borrower; disputes between the debtor and the creditor concerning loans with collateral; definition of negligence; a renter who lends out the object to another, transferring responsibility to another watchman; payment of theft; obligations of a watchman towards rotting fruit; method of reimbursing one who takes care of another's field; custodians of property. NOTE: This tractate is studied by all students in a given trimester. While the scope of instruction is the same, the depth of study depends upon what level the student is in.

Credit recommendation: 

First Level Students (TI213): In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 4 semester hours in Judaic Studies, Jurisprudence, Near Eastern Studies, or Religion; or Second Level Students and beyond (TI413): In the upper division baccalaureate degree category, 4 semester hours in Judaic Studies, Jurisprudence, Near Eastern Studies, or Religion (6/99). NOTE: Credit can be awarded for this course, the two other Intensive Study courses of the same title, and the three Survey courses of the same title.

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