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Ha-mokher et ha-sefina, the fifth perek of Massekhet Bava Batra deals with selling moveable objects. Its opening Mishna continues the questions dealt with in the fourth perek, specifically what is included in the sale of a large object – a ship – that includes many smaller objects within it.
This discussion leads the Gemara to relate a series of stories of ships and sailors, many of them fantastic tales.
We begin an exploration of the Rabbi bar bar Channah stories ( today and tomorrow) with their resonance to a Zoroastrian text called the Bundahishn.