The eighth chapter of Tractate Baba Mezia discusses the legal responsibility of a borrower for the object borrowed. Questions of doubt in ownership arising during an exchange of property are discussed, as well as the rights and responsibilities of renters. Students prepare the applicable Talmudic texts as well as the major halachic opinions of the rishonim and acharonim, and the opinions of various other commentaries and decisors. The instructor guides students in understanding the issues raised and assists them to deduce the crux of these issues. Topics include: discussion of the norm when using a borrowed object together with the owner; prohibition against cursing one's parents; various responsibilities of watchmen; linguistic analysis of added letters in the Torah; purchasing land rights to produce; responsibilities of a husband toward a wife's property; exemption of a borrower for responsibility for the borrowed object; settlement of objects in dispute; using the property of the Holy Temple; case method of deciding Jewish law; eviction of tenants; requirements of mezuzah; payments of rentals; disputes between landlords and tenants; redemption of the first born; responsibility of landlord versus tenant for structural damage of a rental house. NOTE: This tractate is studied by all students in a given trimester. While the scope of instruction is the same, the depth of study depends upon what level the student is in.