Bava Kamma 16b
Highest of One's Property
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Damage caused by an innocuous ox,
the owner pays half the damage
from the sale of the body of the ox,
And if from an already troublesome ox,
he pays the full cost of the damage
from his higher property.
Question: What is meant by "higher" [aliyya] property?
Answer: It means he pays with the superior-quality
[bame’ulla] items of his property.
[aliyya] meaning superior-quality property from a verse:
And Hezekiah lay with his ancestors, and they buried him
in the best [bema’ale] of the sepulchers of the descendants of David
The term bema’ale means beside the best of the family.
Question: And who are they?
Answer: David and Solomon.
the owner pays half the damage
from the sale of the body of the ox,
And if from an already troublesome ox,
he pays the full cost of the damage
from his higher property.
Question: What is meant by "higher" [aliyya] property?
Answer: It means he pays with the superior-quality
[bame’ulla] items of his property.
[aliyya] meaning superior-quality property from a verse:
And Hezekiah lay with his ancestors, and they buried him
in the best [bema’ale] of the sepulchers of the descendants of David
The term bema’ale means beside the best of the family.
Question: And who are they?
Answer: David and Solomon.