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Bava Kamma בבא קמא

a tractate of the order of Nezikin

Nezikin was once a single vast tractate; it was divided into three "gates"—first, middle and last. The first begins with the four principal kinds of damage: the ox, the pit, the grazing beast and the fire. All the rest of the law of damages is derived from them.

The second half is about injury done by one person to another: the five payments—for the injury itself, for pain, for healing, for lost time and for shame—and about theft and robbery, where more than the thing taken must be returned. Here Jewish law looks civil: there is almost no punishment, there is compensation.

Order: Nezikin. There is Gemara in both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud.

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Chazal: Mishnah, Talmud, midrash, Zohar

  • Mishnah Bava Kamma 1:1 — the four principal kinds of damage
  • Mishnah Bava Kamma 8:1 — the five payments for injuring a person

Basis: Talmud and midrash.

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