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Mishnayos Bava Kamma Perek 8 Mishnah 2

בבא קמא פרק ח׳ משנה ב׳

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This halakha is a stringency with regard to a person who caused injury, compared to the halakha with regard to an ox that caused injury: The halakha is that the person pays compensation for damage, pain, medical costs, loss of livelihood, and humiliation; and if he caused a woman to miscarry he also pays compensation for miscarried offspring, as the verse states (see Exodus 21:22). But in the case of an ox that caused injury, the owner pays only compensation for damage, and he is exempt from paying compensation for miscarried offspring.

זֶה חֹמֶר בָּאָדָם מִבַּשּׁוֹר, שֶׁהָאָדָם מְשַׁלֵּם נֶזֶק, צַעַר, רִפּוּי, שֶׁבֶת, וּבֹשֶׁת, וּמְשַׁלֵּם דְּמֵי וְלָדוֹת, וְשׁוֹר אֵינוֹ מְשַׁלֵּם אֶלָּא נֶזֶק, וּפָטוּר מִדְּמֵי וְלָדוֹת:

ב׳
Bartenura

ושור אינו משלם אלא נזק – as it is written (Leviticus 24:19): “If anyone [maims] his fellow, [as he has done so shall it be done to him,” and not an ox for its fellow.

ופטור מדמי ולדות – as it is written (Exodus 21:22): “When men fight” - men and not oxen.

ושור אינו משלם אלא נזק. דכתיב (ויקרא ב״ד) איש בעמיתו, ולא שור בעמיתו:

ופטור מדמי ולדות. דכתיב (שמות כ״א:כ״ב) כי ינצו אנשים, אנשים ולא שוורים: