Bava Kamma 49: Not Just Piles of Money
A new mishnah, this one more challenging, in that it deals with miscarriage (and women in general). A person hits a woman and she miscarries, he pays her husband accordingly. What happens when the damage is done by an ox? How is the value of the lost pregnancy evaluated? With difficult elements... Also, the Gemara in this mishnah - addressing the question of assessing the value of the fetus (or rather, the value of the woman who has miscarried). Probing the question of whether the woman's value increases or decreases because of the potential child... Including an unusual perspective of R…
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