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Mishnah: One who says: I seduced the daughter of so-and-so, pays compensation for humiliation and degradation based on his own admission, but does not pay the fine. Similarly, one who says: I stole, pays the principal, the value of the stolen goods, based on his own admission, but does not pay th
Talmud: The Talmud asks: And let the tanna teach this halakha with regard to one who said: I raped the daughter of so-and-so. Why did the Mishnah cite the case of seduction? The Talmud answers: The tanna is speaking employing the style: It is not necessary. It is not necessary for the Mishnah to ci
The Talmud comments: The Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of this tanna, as it is taught in a baraita: R' Shimon ben Yehuda says in the name of R' Shimon: Even the payments of humiliation and degradation, he does not pay them based on his own admission as it is not within his power to t
Rav Pappa said to Abaye: According to R' Shimon, if she herself is amenable to his claim, and admits that his version of the events is accurate, what is the halakha? Is he exempt from payments of humiliation and degradation in that case as well? Abaye responded: Perhaps her father is not amenable t
The Mishnah continues. One who says: I stole, pays the principal, but does not pay the double payment and the payment 9 times the principal. It is stated that amora’im disagreed with regard to the payment of half the damage that the owner of an innocuous ox, which was not yet witnessed goring a per