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that is not paid according to its value, meaning that the payment is not equal to the cost of the damage but is actually more than that amount, he also taught the halakha with regard to payment of half the cost of the damage, which is also money that is not paid according to its value, as he pays
§ The Talmud asks: From where do we derive the fundamental requirement for 3 judges? The Talmud answers: This is as A baraita states: The verse states: “The owner of the house shall come near the court, to see whether he has not put his hand upon his neighbor’s property” (Exodus 22:7), so there is
R' Yonatan says: The first instance of the term “the court” is stated first as part of the primary text of the passage, and it is necessary for conveying the straightforward meaning of the verse. And one does not derive tallies for halakhic matters by counting the first mention of a term. R' Yonatan
Let us say that R' Yoshiya and R' Yonatan disagree with regard to whether one derives tallies for halakhic matters from the first mention of a term in the Torah. As one Sage, R' Yoshiya, holds that one derives tallies from the first mention of the term in the Torah, and one Sage, R' Yonatan, holds
The Talmud asks: And how would R' Yonatan respond to this analysis? The Talmud answers: He would say that the verse employed the common language of the world, as people say: One who has a case, a claim against another, should approach the regular judge, the one who generally judges cases and can b