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Hammurabi - 1792 - 1750 B.C.E was the sixth king of the first Babylonian dynasty

Bava Kamma 44: לְגוֹי – וְהָרַג בֶּן יִשְׂרָאֵל

jyungar December 16, 2023

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The Mishna on our daf lists seven cases of people who own an ox that will be killed because it killed a person. The first case on the list is that of an ox owned by a woman. In bringing a source for this law, the Gemara quotes a baraita that points to the Torah’s repetition of the word shor (ox) seven times in the passages that deal with a goring ox (see Shemot 21:28-32), which includes all of the “unusual” cases.

We compare the code of Hammurabi with the laws of tort in Mishpatim.

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