During what time frame can a wayward rebellious son become liable? • Precocious maturity of earlier generations • Can a wayward rebellious daughter become liable? • What context of juvenile sinful gluttony will inexorably lead to a murderous menace?

Various categories of idolatrous worship • Serving idols out of love or fear

What forms of bestiality are subject to capital punishment? • When is the animal that was involved killed? • At what ages for boys and for girls are intimate acts legally classified as relations? • How is testimony for blasphemy validated to finalize a conviction?

What is necessary to render something designated for the dead prohibited from alternate use? • What happens to the assets of a person executed for a capital crime or for rebellion against his monarch? • The dangers of issuing curses

How was King Solomon exceptional, and how was he not exceptional? • How do we cultivate within ourselve awe of God? • The means and primacy of honoring God

Cross examination of witnesses • The wantonness needed for a court conviction

Structural biases towards acquittal are incorporated into the judgement of capital cases

What is King Solomon's bottom line assessment of Man?

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What framework can we employ to help us make better choices? • A critical perspective on reincarnation

How many judges preside over an arbitration? • When is a judicial ruling binding, yet due to error, the judge is held liable to compensate the wronged party? • When is compromise permitted or encouraged? • How are justice and charitable peace both manifest in judgement? • In judgement, when is one prohibited from being afraid of man?…

What does King Solomon convey when addressing me as his son? • How to avoid being overwhelmed • Beyond seeking what is written in the Torah and following the words of our Sages, for the myriad nuances of a life well lived, it is also imperative to engage in thoughtful reasoning.

Different levels of guarantorship • When is it not wicked to encourage a kenunya conspiracy? • Why is a last resort guarantor for a Kesuba not typically liable? • When are oral deathbed dispositions not considered as documented and delivered?

Precautionary measures to prevent the fabrication and use of fraudulent documents • Detecting attempted fraud

Two types of transactional documents • When is the more complex document promoted and why? • Fraud prevention

Ambiguous deathbed gifts • A disgruntled litigant might not float your boat

Wedding gift refunds • When are a bride's blemishes grounds for divorce without requiring the husband to pay Kesuba? • When does a husband lose the right to inherit his wife? • When is a will honored and when is it voided?

Estate distributions • May the oldest brother pay for fine clothing from the estate? • Are wedding expenditures during the father's lifetime indicative of future wedding expenses to be paid from the estate? • A husband's rights to his wife's properties are great, but his father-in-law's widow's rights are greater • Estate size can impact equitabe d…

When does a husband writing all his assets over to his wife result in a full gift and when does it result in her appointment as steward over all his assets? • When a woman is gifted all of her husband's assets, when and why is she at risk of losing the entire estate? • When a husband creates a partnership, endowing his wife with a share among his c…

From which assets does the firstborn receive a double portion? • From which assets does a widower inherit from his wife?

How was the land of Israel inherited? • Grace, an antidote to resentment

How do we know that a man inherits his mother? • Dayo, limiting the extension of a Kal Vachomer (a fortiori) • A messy controversy: Does a mother bequeath to her children equally, or to her sons before daughters? • Does a mother ever bequeath a double portion? How do we know that a man inherits his wife? • Is the husband's inheritance Biblical or R…

If you were an ox, how could you develop an appreciation for the glamourless cattle prod? • Discerning decisive truth among conflicting theoretical truths

When selling an unmeasured field, when is the estimated yet imprecise parcel size binding on both parties, and when are adjustments needed? • Do the same parameters apply to larger transactions? • Price gouging on real property • When adjustments are warranted, when is the purchase price increased and when is part of the property returned to the se…

When should the blessing borei peri hagafen be recited over wine dreg extract? • What types of wine should not be used for libations but may be used for kiddush, consecration of the hallowed day?

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When is it permissible to repurpose and maintain a faulty measure? • Limits on altering measures and currency values • Limits on profit margins • No intervention can be more effective than a calculated intervention towards maintaining lower prices in the longer term • Restrictions on exports of basic necessities when supply is tight help maintain l…

The Talmudic debate about what King Solomon sought, yet was denied • Man's potential and the Messianic era

When selling a group of trees, when is the land between them included? • Four types of transactions: When can the Seller, Buyer, neither or both back out?

King Solomon, master of learning and sharing wisdom, was fueled by relentless drive • When is self-promotion appropriate?

What type of Kinyan, symbolic act, can effect the transfer of a boat, or an animal, or a prommisory note?

When selling a field, what is included and what is excluded?

Navigating ambiguities of real estate contracts

The tragic dissolution of man • Look critically at the opportunity costs of following every impulse and desire

A detailed examination of the process by which a non-Jew sells his real property to a Jew • Dina d'Malchusa Dina; when do governmental regulations override the defaults of Jewish law? • Laws pertaining to two adjacent fields owned by the same owner

Death: the temporary divergence between body and soul • What happens to the body and soul after death? • Resurrection is by Divine invitation to ascend from the grave

Why is a sale binding when there are elements of coersion exerted upon the seller? • Willingness comingled with coersion in bringing a sacrifice or granting a bill of divorce • What happens when the groom forces the bride to accept his proposal?

Remember God while articulate, and of sound mind • King Solomon guides the nation in sweeping terms to serve God in a state of cohesive vigor, before malaise and societal decay set in • If we had listened to God, Nevuchadnezzar would not have been goaded to destroy the temple

Establishment of possession requires a rightful claim • The squatter's mindset • Mistaken forgiveness • Consensus within contradictory testimony • What circumstances would invalidate the establishment of presumed possession?

Don't delay teshuva; at advanced age, a person might block out their recollection of their misdeeds, preventing adequate remorse • How to tell if someone has a share in the world to come • Is it important to be missed? How to be a wise servantand avoid putting off doing teshuva

From how far away does does a tree take up nutrients? • If a tree is planted near a neighbor's property is the tree owner stealing, and may first fruits be brought? • If branches from a neighboring tree overhang into your property, how much may you chop?

How does King Solomon view retirement? • It is common to be easily stirred from sleep as the slumber of death approaches • What is the significance of decreased musical sensitivity as we age?

What objects can constitute a barrier that prevents ritual impurity spreading from one house to another through a shared window? • Must one bury a stillborn? • Distancing a mill from a wall owned by a neighbor • When one neighbor takes steps to establish property usage that would curtail his neighbor's usage rights if firmly established by preceden…

Equitable division of complex property • May one partner force the dissolution of a partnership, and if so, how? • When and why is a master required to free his slave? • When are mutually agreeable partners nonetheless barred from dividing their property?

Confronting systemic decline begins with awareness • Realistic assessment of one's weaknesses should inform the challenges one engages • Appreciate and utilize fleeting gifts • Dietary recommendations shift as we age

Is a dubious claim given credence if a more credible lie could have been crafted? • Above and beyond: when is one required to pay for a full half of a taller than necessary wall built by his neighbor? • The versatility of conveyed property easements • What facets of a property may be utilitzed by a tenant of a room in a large house? • The time to e…

If a rented second story is damaged, when may the upstairs tenant move in downstairs with the landlord? • How do the Rambam and Rosh differ in their respective approaches to an unresolved question between Landlord and Tenant? • Who is responsible for repairing a leak that runs from the upper floor and damages the lower floor? • Does the right to bu…

Adjudicating ambiguous lease agreements • Chazaka, established possession does not confer "squatter rights" • Do creditor rights to foreclosure include property improvements made subsequent to the lien? • The Torah obligation to pay employees in a timely manner • The rabbinic obligation to pay beyond the biblical time frame…

Landlord rights • Borrower rights • Primacy of established custom • When is a tenant entitled to a reduction in rent?

What liabilities apply to atypical borrowings? • What core facets of a borrowing transaction are required to generate the Torah's default liabilities upon borrowers? • Ba'alim Imo: exemptions from liabilities when the lender is employed by the borrower • Could a rabbinic court be liable for an inadvertent embezzlement of consecrated properties brou…