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    Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:What can nd can’t be an item of symbolic exchange?How can you sell land and movable goods in one transaction?What is relevance of Boaz and Ruth to law of symbolic exchange?When can produce be used as …

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  • Chapter 4, Mishna 1Topics covered:If you turn produce into currency, does that sacralize currency? Can you trade it for different kind of currency?Are coins relative to produce currency or commodity?Can we desacralize produce with gold dinars?What about second tithe produce?Why …

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