daf bit: Bava Kama 18

[cellio]

Today's daf talks about payments due for damages done by our animals. The passage talks about several unusual-sounding cases: the chicken that eats at a cord holding a bucket (causing the bucket to fall and break), the dog who steals a cake from the fire, eats the cake, and (via a dangling coal) sets property on fire, the rooster whose crow breaks glass, and the animal that fouls bread-dough. In all of these cases there is a dispute over whether one pays full or half damages. All agree that if the animal has done this three times then full damages are due; this is derived from the torah case of the ox that gores. (18)

(If you know it gores, shatters vessels, or steals bread, however bizarre that might seem, you should have taken precautions. If you didn't, you owe full damages.)

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[talvinamarich.livejournal.com]

Once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Just ask the Rabbi!