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The Talmud asks: With regard to the payment made by conspiring witnesses, which is categorized as monetary restitution, as the witnesses pay the precise sum that they conspired to cause the defendant to lose, let R' Oshaya also teach it as one of the categories on his list. The Talmud answers: R' O
The Talmud asks: If R' Oshaya holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, let him teach two distinct types of categories of damage under the rubric of Ox: Let him teach one category for an ox that damages an ox or other property belonging to another person, and let him also teach the case of a
The Talmud explains its question: As we learned in a Mishnah (33a): In a case where the two parties damaged each other concurrently, R' Akiva says: The owner of the innocuous ox that injured a person also pays the full cost of the damage with regard to the difference between the damage caused by hi
The Talmud answers: Didn’t R' Akiva break the force of his fist [gezizeih], i.e., he significantly tempered the force of his statement, as it is taught in a baraita that R' Akiva says: One might have thought that even in the case of an innocuous ox that injured a person, the owner of the ox would
The Talmud asks: As for the rapist, and the seducer, and the defamer, all of which are cases in which the offender pays monetary restitution, let R' Oshaya teach them as categories in his list.