4 November 2026
A stranger's half-million-dollar boat is drifting towards the rocks. You save it - damaging your own boat and paying an emergency crew out of your own pocket. When you ask to be repaid, he answers: "Thanks, but I never asked you." Does he owe you anything?
The Talmud wrestled with exactly this: a man pours out his own wine to save a stranger's honey; a fugitive promises a ferryman a fortune to cross the river; two donkeys are swept away and only one can be saved. The rulings are surprising, and behind them sits a deep idea about what it really means to do someone a favour.
A class on Talmud Bava Metzia with Rabbi Aron Moss of Nefesh, Bondi Beach.