Our
Daf contemplates whether certain functionaries are considered agents. The Gemara examines instances where the category of messenger may apply. We may possibly learn from other instances cited in
Shas. The Gemara at
Baba Kama 104a discusses the qualifications of a messenger in general as well as in a certain circumstance.
As part of the Yom Kippur service, a goat was led for a three-hour walk from the
Beis
HaMikdash to the stop of a steep cliff. There, the person who accompanied it, charged with achieving atonement for the sins of the Jewish nation, threw it down to its death.
מדוע הגר ח לא הזכיר את ה משנה ברורה ?
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התלמיד והתורה חד הם
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ארבע אבות נזיקין השור ןהבור ןהמבעה וההבער
There are four master categories of damages the שור (ox), the בור (pit) the מבעה (?) and the הבער (fire).
The first, third and fourth terms are absolutely clear, and in sequential lockstep with their appearance in Parshat Mishpatim. Damage related to oxen is described in Exodus 21:25-32 and 35-36. Damage caused by a pit is in 21:4. Damage by fire is in 22:5.
Yet NOWHERE in Mishpatim, NOWHERE in the entire Torah, NOWHERE in the Hebrew lexicon – ancient to modern – can the word
מבעה (mav’eh) be found.
The scholars of the Talmud (
amoraim) were at a loss to make sense of this unknown word. Indeed, they go through incredible contortions and flights of fancy in their attempts to find anything even remotely cognate in Scripture. Ever since, thousands of gallons of ink have been spilt and countless hours in the yeshivahs and kollels have been expended on decoding this mysterious word