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But doesn’t Rav Yitzḥak, son of R' Yosef, say that R' Yoḥanan says: R' Yehuda HaNasi, and R' Yehuda ben Roetz, and Beit Shammai, and R' Shimon, and R' Akiva all hold that the vocalization of the Torah is authoritative, not the manner in which it is written? How can Rav Ḥiyya bar Ashi ascribe R' Yeh
Rav Pappa said: In the case of one who cast a clod of earth onto a palm tree, and he severed dates from the tree, and the dates went upon a person and killed him, we have arrived at the dispute between R' Yehuda HaNasi and the Rabbis in a case where one was splitting wood and a wood chip flew throu
The Talmud asks: But according to R' Yehuda HaNasi, how can you find circumstances of a force generated by the force of his action where he would be exempt from exile? The Talmud answers: It can be found in a case where one cast a clod of earth and it struck a branch of the palm tree, and the branch
Mishnah: One who threw a stone into the public domain and killed a person is exiled. R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov says: If after the stone left his hand the other person placed his head out into the public domain and received a blow from the stone, he is exempt, as when he cast the stone into the public
In the case of one who threw the stone into his courtyard and killed a person, if the victim had permission to enter into there, the murderer is exiled, but if not, he is not exiled, as it is stated with regard to the cities of refuge: “And as one who goes with his neighbor into the forest” (Deuter