Editing Bava Metzia (section)

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Tractate '''Bava Metzia''' is the second tractate in the Order of Nezikin (Damages) in the Mishnah. Its name in Aramaic means "The Middle Gate," and it is called this because it is the middle one of the three "Bavas" - tractates dealing with the laws of damages: Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Batra. The tractate includes ten chapters, 117.5 pages.

The tractate deals with laws of monetary doubt, returning lost objects, guardians, interest, purchasing objects, laborers and sharecroppers. Several books of our Rebbes' novellae have been published on this tractate, including: The list of "Two Who Hold" from the Rebbe's notes, the novellae of the Tzemach Tzedek (published by the "Ohalei Lubavitch" Institute) edited by Rabbi Avraham Baruch Pevzner, and others.

This tractate is one of the Gemara tractates studied in Chabad yeshivas.