About this episode
Study Guide Bava Kamma 69 Today's daf is sponsored by Marcia Baum in loving memory of Helena K Baum, Chaya Chana Alter bat Chana and Yekutiel Yehuda on her 8th yahrzeit. "My mom was a lover of Torah, Yahadut and Am Yisrael . She was a lifelong learner who instilled a love of learning in her daughters. She is missed every day. I hope that I am doing her proud." Today's daf is sponsored by the Hadran Women of Long Island for a refuah shleima for Yehuda Aharon ben Rachel, husband of our friend and co-learner, Sharon Gabin Lichtman b'toch she'ar cholei Yisrael. May he and all cholei Yisrael merit the blessing of "וקווי ה' יחליפו כח יעלו אבר כנשרים". Rabbi Yochanan said that you cannot dedicate anything that is not in your possession, as, someone stole it. If Rabbi Yochanan holds like all unattributed Mishnas, this statement contradicts a Mishna in Maaser Sheni 5:1, where one can redeem fruits that were stolen from him/her after they are no longer in their possession. After a long attempt to change the version in the Mishna to conform to Rabbi Yochanan (that the redemption of the fruits happens before it was stolen), this possibility is rejected because of another opinion of Rabbi Yochanan that contradicts this as well (there is no retroactive designation). To resolve the issue, they explain that Rabbi Yochanan holds by a different unattributed Mishna (our Mishna). What motivated him to rule like our Mishna and not the Mishna in the Maaser Sheni? In the discussion with Rabbi Yochanan regarding the Mishna in Masser Sheni, the Gemara brought a different statement of Rabbi Yochanan that Rabbi Dosa and the modest ones ( tznuim ) said the same thing. Three amoraim that if Rabbi Yohanan had not said this sentence, we would have come to different conclusions on several matters. What are these conclusions?