Bava Kamma 42 - December 14, 2 Tevet

Today's daf is sponsored by Rachel Savin in honor of the engagement of her daughter Lior to Daniel Machlof from New Jersey. "May they build a beit neeman b'Yisrael, a house of Torah and ahavat chinam. We are praying for the safe return of the hostages and all of our soldiers, and for nechama for the families of those who have fallen, and for a refuah shleima for all those injured." Today's daf is sponsored for the refuah shleima of Avigdor ben Hinda Eila. Two more explanations (in addition to the three in Bava Kamma 41) are brought to explain what the words in the verse regarding a shor tam "and the owner of the ox is clean (exempt)" come to exclude/teach. Rabbi Yosi haGelili holds that it exempts payment for an animal that causes a woman to miscarry. Rabbi Akiva holds that it exempts payment for a shor tam who kills a slave. Each is questioned as they seem unnecessary at first but then explained.