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Bava Kama 116

BAVA KAMA 116 - dedicated by Mr. Simon and Mr. Yitzi Joseph, of Manchester, to the memory of their late great uncle, Reb Yaakov ben Meir Eichen.

1) [line 5] EIN HACHRA'AH SHELISHIS MACHRA'AS
(a) When three opinions are expressed regarding a certain matter and one of them is an intermediate opinion which accepts part of what was expressed by each extreme opinion, thereby *compromising* between the two other opinions, the Halachah follows that opinion.
(b) If the intermediate opinion is stated as an *independent* third opinion, and is not based on a dichotomy hinted at by the first two opinions, the Halachah does not necessarily follow that opinion (RASHI).

2) [line 7] MESHATEH ANI BECHA - [let him say] "I was only misleading you!"
3) [line 8] MA'BORES - a ferry-boat, usually a raft attached to a rope that is stretched across a river

4) [line 13] SECHARO MISHLAM - his "full" wages, i.e. the Dinar that he promissed would be his wages

5) [line 15] TZAYAD HA'SHOLEH DAGIM MIN HA'YAM - a fisherman
6) [line 15] AFSADETANI KAVREI B'ZUZA - you made me lose [time that I would have used to catch] fish for the Zuz (Dinar) [that you promised me]

7) [line 24] YARAD LEHATZIL V'ALAH SHELO ME'EILAV - if he (the owner of the one-Maneh donkey) jumped in to save [the two-Maneh donkey with the intention that his donkey would be lost and his friend would pay for it,] but his donkey subsequently came out by itself

8) [line 25] MI'SHEMAYA RACHIMU ALEI - (lit. Heaven had mercy on him) the owner of the two-Maneh donkey must pay the owner of the one-Maneh donkey the value of his donkey, and it is considered that he re-acquired his donkey from Hefker

9) [last line] V'ZO SHE'ELAH! - This is a good question! [and I will answer you accordingly] (RASHI to Zevachim 30b, 92b)

116b---------------------------------------116b

10) [line 1] KERUV - cabbage
11) [line 1] DORMASKENIN - (a) (O.F. prunes) [Damascan] plums; (b) (O.F. adrelces) orache, mountain spinach

12a) [line 6] MECHASHVIN LEFI MAMON - [when they come to terms with the robbers,] each person pays according to what they are currently worth (the money or the goods that he has with him)
b) [line 6] V'EIN MECHASHVIN LEFI NEFASHOS - but they do not pay per head

13) [line 7] TAYAR - a guide
14) [line 7] MECHASHVIN AF LEFI NEFASHOS - [since hiring a guide involves life-threatening danger,] they pay per head as well (half per head and half according to what they are currently worth)

15) [line 8] CHAMARIM - donkey-drivers
16) [line 9] KOL MI SHE'YE'ABED LO CHAMORO (YA'AMID) [YA'AMIDU -- (Girsa of the RASHASH)] LO CHAMOR ACHER - anyone who loses his donkey, (he will) [we will] provide him with another donkey

17) [line 10] KUSYA - negligence
18) [line 11] TENU LI VA'ANI ESHMOR - Give me [the money for a new donkey, without providing the actual animal] and I will [even so -- although I have no animal that needs to be guarded --] stand guard [when my turn arrives]

19) [line 12] EIN SHOM'IN LO - (lit. we do not listen to him) we do not accept this condition, since we assume that a person does not guard the animals as well as he guards them when he has an animal of his own to guard

20) [line 17] MASOY - weight
21) [line 24] ASHLA - one [standard] rope's length
22) [line 26] DAVSHEI - his ordinary course
23) [line 28] HITZIL LA'EMTZA - (lit. he saves [and returns the property] to the middle) the property that he saves is returned to its rightful owner

24) [line 42, 46] MASIKIN, METZIKIN - oppressors
25) [line 46] LO MISHTABESH - does not make a mistake, does not blunder
26) [line 47] "B'MATZOR UV'MATZOK" - "[And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which HaSh-m your G-d has given you,] in the siege, and in the distress, [with which your enemies shall distress you.]" (Devarim 28:53)

27a) [line 47] "YEYARESH HA'TZELATZAL." - "[All your trees and the fruit of your land] shall the locust consume." (Devarim 28:42)
b) [line 48] U'METARGEMINAN "YACHSENINEI SA'KA'AH" - and the Targum Onkelos translates it as, "Yachseninei Sa'ka'ah," where the word for locust, "Saka'ah," is similar to "Masikin"

28) [line 50] D'ACHVEI ACHVUYEI - he pointed out [the field to the oppressors]
29) [line 51] "ACHVEI AR'ASEI!" - "Show us his (i.e. your) field!)
30) [line 51] V'ACHVEI HA'HU B'HADAIHU - and he showed them that one (his neighbor's field) along with them (his own fields)

31) [line 52] D'ACHVEI A'KARYA D'CHITEI D'BEI REISH GALUSA - who pointed to the wheat pile of the house of the Reish Galusa, the Exilarch, [turning it over to the oppressors]

32) [line 54] KENASA - a penalty

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