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We explore one of the most consequential meta-halakhic principles in rabbinic literature: the assertion that “the Torah has concern for the money of Israel” (ḥasah ha-Torah ʿal mamonam shel Yisraʾel). Although the maxim recurs across the Babylonian Talmud, its appearance on our daf—within a discussion of whether a torn membrane covering the stomach renders an animal tereifah, and whether fat in a particular location is permitted or forbidden—offers an unusually clean window onto the principle's logic. There the value of the animal as property tilts a doubtful ruling toward leniency.