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was wearing black shoes, unlike the Jewish custom of that time, and standing in the market of Neharde’a. Officials of the house of the Exilarch found him and said to him: What is different about you that causes you to wear these shoes? He said to them: I am wearing them because I am in mourning o
Eliezer Ze’eira said to them: I am a great man, a scholar, and it is fitting for me to mourn publicly over the destruction of Jerusalem. They said to him: How do we know that you are a scholar? He said to them: Either you ask of me a matter of halakha and I will answer you, or I will ask you a matt
He said to them: With regard to one who cuts a cluster of flowers on the stem of a date palm belonging to another, what is he required to pay? They said to him: He pays the value of the date stem. He said to them: But ultimately they will become ripe dates, which are worth more. They said to him:
They said to Eliezer Ze’eira: You tell us the correct appraisal for the date stem. He said to them: The court appraises the damage relative to a similar piece of land 60 times the size. They said to him: Who says an opinion as you do, so that you can prove you are correct? He said to them: Shmuel i
§ The Mishnah (55b) teaches that R' Shimon says: If the animal ate ripe produce, the owner pays the value of the ripe produce eaten. What is the reason for R' Shimon’s opinion? This that God states in the Torah: “And it feed in another’s field” (Exodus 22:4), which teaches that the court appraises