בבא קמא · Bava Kamma

About Masechta Bava Kamma · מסכת בבא קמא

Bava Kamma - the first of the three gates of Nezikin - learns damages: what a person must pay when his property, or he himself, causes harm. It opens with the four avos nezikin - the ox, the pit, the grazing animal and the fire - and the duty to guard each.

The first perakim learn the ox that gores and the ox that has gored three times and is mu'ad, the tooth and foot of an animal that eats and tramples in another's field, the pit dug in the public road, the jar that broke on the road, and the fire that spreads. The eighth perek, HaChovel, learns a person who injures another: the five payments - damage, pain, healing, lost time and shame - and that 'an eye for an eye' means money.

The seventh and ninth perakim learn theft: the thief who pays double, or four and five for an ox or sheep he slaughtered or sold, the robber who must return what he took, and a stolen thing that changed in his hands; the tenth learns buying from a thief and saving one's own property. Through it all runs the question of how far a person answers for the world around him, and the teaching that one who wishes to be a chassid should keep the words of Nezikin.

From the pages of Bava Kamma

One who wishes to be a chassid should keep the words of Nezikin - some say the words of Avos, some say the words of Berachos; once permission is given to the destroyer, it does not tell the righteous from the wicked; one who prays for his friend when he needs the same thing himself is answered first; a person should always be among the pursued and not among the pursuers; whoever says that Hashem lets things pass, his own life will be let pass; and the ten takanos of Ezra.

This page holds 661 shiurim on Masechta Bava Kamma from 6 maggidei shiur; the most come from Rabbi Shmuel Silber (179), Rabbi David Elmaleh (158) and Rabbi Eli Stefansky (119). 582 of them learn the whole daf and 79 are short reviews. 118 dafim have their own shiurim here, each in its own row above, and “Learn in the Daf Room” opens that daf with its text and its shiurim side by side.

Masechta Bava Kamma in the Daf Yomi

The 14th Daf Yomi cycle learned Masechta Bava Kamma one daf a day for 118 days, from daf 2 to daf 119, from November 4, 2023 to February 29, 2024; the 15th cycle, which opens with Berachos on June 8, 2027, reaches it on April 7, 2031. Masechta Bava Kamma is in Seder Nezikin, the fourth of the six orders of the Mishnah, and in the order of the Daf Yomi it comes after Masechta Kiddushin and before Masechta Bava Metzia. On each of those days the Daf Room opens the day's daf with its text and every shiur on it, and the rows above keep the shiurim of every daf of the masechta for anyone who learns at his own pace.

The perakim of Bava Kamma

Masechta Bava Kamma has ten perakim, from daf 2a to daf 119b. Each perek below opens its first daf in the Daf Room, where the Gemara’s text and every shiur on that daf sit together.

1. Perek 1 ארבעה אבות 2a – 17a
2. Perek 2 כיצד הרגל 17a – 27a
3. Perek 3 המניח 27a – 36a
4. Perek 4 שור שנגח ד' וה' 36a – 46a
5. Perek 5 שור שנגח את הפרה 46a – 55a
6. Perek 6 הכונס 55b – 62b
7. Perek 7 מרובה 62b – 83a
8. Perek 8 החובל 83b – 93a
9. Perek 9 הגוזל עצים 93b – 111a
10. Perek 10 הגוזל בתרא 111b – 119b