[Avodah] The relevance of the middle perakim of Bava Basra today

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:32:57PM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
: Perakim 4-7 of Bava Basra (which Daf Yomi has been learning) deal with the
: sale of various things, what is included and what is not. The common
: denominator seems to be that these are seemingly solely based on the
: accepted business practice during the time of Chazal and what people expect
: to get when they consumate a deal...

: Given the above, are these at all relevant today? ...

First reaction: They would be relevant to a poseiq trying to learn how
to determine which of today's expectations have halachic import. It
would require doing the saqme kind of mapping of market norms to law
that chazal did, so the poseiq could learn from example.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha