Baba Kama 2:3-4
Baba Kama 2:3
If a dog or a goat jumped off a roof and broke utensils, the owner pays full damages because there is a presumption that an animal may cause damage in this manner. If a dog took a cake off the fire to a stack of grain to eat it and a stray coal burned up the grain, the owner pays full damages for the cake and half-damages for the grain.
Baba Kama 2:4
An animal is presumed to cause damage (muad) if its owner was warned for three days; it is no longer presumed to cause damage (tam) if it went three days without incident. This is the opinion of Rabbi Yehuda. Rabbi Meir says that an animal is a muad if the owner was warned three times (even on the same day) and it goes back to being a tam when children can touch the animal without it goring.
Grateful Thanks for the Mishna Yomit Dedication of
Rabbi Louis Leifer and Mrs. Miriam D. Leifer z"l
Next In This Series
