Pesachim 4a

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Can a tenant who rents a house on the fourteenth of Nisan presume the landlord already did bedikas chametz? The Gemara tries to prove it from a beraisa that believes even women, slaves and children, reading it as resting on chezkas bodek. Once challenged, the beraisa is set in a case where the landlord presumably had not checked, and the question stays unresolved.

Key points

• Some Rishonim learn from the Gemara's question that one who can clarify cannot rely on presumption.
• Rashi reads the beraisa as believing a wife, slave or child that the owner checked.
• In the Gemara's first reading, everyone is a chaver regarding bedikas chametz, presumed to have checked.
• From Rashi, some Acharonim infer no presumption of checking during the night itself, and other Rishonim disagree.
• The beraisa ends up believing them because bedikas chametz is d'Rabbanan, so the question stays open.

In this shiur

1. 0:00A tefillah for one's chaverim
2. 1:13Renting a house on the fourteenth
3. 2:41Clarifying instead of presuming
4. 5:53The beraisa: everyone is believed
5. 6:57Rashi on who is believed
6. 15:08Chaver and am haaretz
7. 17:36The chaver who died leaving fruit
8. 30:55Rashi: the question is in the morning
9. 42:08The Gemara challenges the proof
10. 45:33The beraisa as a different case
11. 49:00An unanswered question

Topics

• Bedikas Chametz
• Chezkas Bodek
• Chaver
• Maseches Pesachim