Study Bava Kamma folio 22A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita: If a dog or a goat jumped, regardless of whether they jumped from above to below or from below to above, their owners are exempt from all liability? Rav Pappa interpreted it in the following way: Their manners of movement were changed from the typ
§ The Mishnah teaches: With regard to a dog that took a cake that had been baked directly on hot coals, and went to a stack of grain to eat it, and it ate the cake and at the same time ignited the stack of grain with a coal that it had taken along with the cake, the owner of the dog must pay the ful
With regard to damage caused by a fire lit by one person spreading to a location other than where it was lit, the Talmud cites a dispute among the amora’im: It was stated: R' Yoḥanan says: His liability for damage caused by his fire is due to its similarity to his arrows, meaning that damage cause
The Talmud asks: And what is the reason that Reish Lakish did not state his opinion in accordance with the opinion of R' Yoḥanan? The Talmud answers: He could have said to you that fire is not comparable to an arrow, as an arrow proceeds as a result of his direct force, while this fire does not pr
The Talmud attempts to settle the dispute: We learned in the Mishnah: With regard to a dog that took a cake that had been baked directly on hot coals, and went to a stack of grain to eat it, and it ate the cake and at the same time ignited the stack of grain with a coal that it had taken along with