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This is the principle of assessing payment for humiliation caused to another: It is all evaluated in accordance with the honor of the one who was humiliated, as the Talmud will explain. R' Akiva said: Even with regard to the poor among the Jewish people, they are viewed as though they were freemen w
The Mishnah relates: And an incident occurred involving one who uncovered the head of a woman in the marketplace, and the woman came before R' Akiva to request that he render the assailant liable to pay for the humiliation that she suffered, and R' Akiva rendered the assailant liable to give her 40
The man then waited for her until she was standing by the opening of her courtyard, and he broke a jug in front of her, and there was the value of about an issar of oil inside the jug. The woman then exposed her own head and she was wetting [metapaḥat] her hand in the oil, and placing her hand on he
The man set up witnesses to observe her actions, and he came before R' Akiva, and he said to him: Will I give 400 dinars to this woman for having uncovered her head? By uncovering her head for a minimal benefit, she has demonstrated that this does not cause her humiliation.
R' Akiva said to him: You did not say anything, i.e., this claim will not exempt you. One who injures himself, although it is not permitted for him to do so, is nevertheless exempt from any sort of penalty, but others who injured him are liable to pay him. In this case as well, the man was liable t