Mishnayos Eruchin Perek 3 Mishnah 1
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ערכין פרק ג׳ משנה א׳
There are halakhot with regard to valuations that are lenient and others that are stringent; and there are halakhot with regard to an ancestral field that are lenient and others that are stringent; and there are halakhot with regard to a forewarned ox that killed a Canaanite slave that are lenient and others that are stringent; and there are halakhot with regard to a rapist, and a seducer, and a defamer that are lenient and others that are stringent. There are halakhot with regard to valuations that are lenient and others that are stringent; how so? Both in the case of one who took a vow of valuation to donate the fixed value of the most attractive among the Jewish people and in the case of one who took a vow of valuation to donate the fixed value of the most unsightly among the Jewish people, he gives the fixed payment of fifty sela, shekels, to the Temple treasury (see Leviticus 27:3). And if one said: It is incumbent upon me to donate the assessment of another to the Temple treasury, he gives the price for that person if sold as a slave, a sum that can be more or less than fifty shekels.
יֵשׁ בָּעֲרָכִין לְהָקֵל וּלְהַחֲמִיר, בִּשְׂדֵה אֲחֻזָּה לְהָקֵל וּלְהַחֲמִיר, בְּשׁוֹר הַמּוּעָד שֶׁהֵמִית אֶת הָעֶבֶד לְהָקֵל וּלְהַחֲמִיר, בָּאוֹנֵס וּבַמְּפַתֶּה וּבַמּוֹצִיא שֵׁם רָע לְהָקֵל וּלְהַחֲמִיר. יֵשׁ בָּעֲרָכִין לְהָקֵל וּלְהַחֲמִיר. כֵּיצַד. אֶחָד שֶׁהֶעֱרִיךְ אֶת הַנָּאֶה שֶׁבְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וְאֶת הַכָּעוּר שֶׁבְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, נוֹתֵן חֲמִשִּׁים סָלַע. וְאִם אָמַר הֲרֵי דָמָיו עָלָי, נוֹתֵן אֶת שָׁוְיוֹ:
Bartenura
יש בערכין להקל ולהחמיר וכו׳ כולהו מפרש להו ואזיל לקמן בפרקין:
את הנאה שבישראל. אפילו שוה מאה מנה אינו נותן אלא חמשים סלע, והיינו להקל. ולהחמיר, שהמעריך את הכעור שבישראל אפילו אין שוה אלא חמש סלעים. נותן חמשים סלעים אם הנערך מבן עשרים ועד בן ששים:
יש בערכין להקל ולהחמיר וכו' – all of them are explained further on in our chapter.
את הנאה שבישראל – even if he is worth one-hundred Maneh, he does not give other than fifty Selah, and that is rule leniently. And to rule stringently, that a person pledges the valuation of the ugliest among the Israelites, even that he is not worth anything other than five Selah. He gives fifty Selah if the person being valuated is between the ages of twenty and sixty.