About this episode
What was unique about the respect given to Chizkiyahu upon his death? What is more important - learning Torah or keeping mitzvot? Learning Torah or teaching Torah? What rewards are given to those who learn Torah and do acts of kindness, chesed ? What are the details of the main category called regel? Where and how is one liable? What are the subcategories? If the animal kicks up pebbles while walking and the pebbles damage something, that is called tzrorot . The rabbis had a tradition that one only pays half damages for tzrorot . However, Sumchus did not have that tradition and held that the owner pay full damages. All these rules apply to chickens as well, not only animals. The first two sentences in the Mishna seem to be saying the same thing. The same phenomenon happens in the next Mishna regarding shen , damage through eating. How is each Mishna explained? Rava compared indirect damages of tzrorot to laws of impurity for a zav . If a zav would move something and it would be impure, laws of damages would apply as well. If it would not be impure by that movement, the owner would be liable for half the damages for that type of movement. This is understood to be referring to a wagon pulled by an animal.