Vayeira 22:5 · unit 4

TT #106 · Parashas Vayeira · Passuk 22:5

The Complete Passuk

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֶל־נְעָרָ֗יו שְׁבוּ־לָכֶ֥ם פֹּה֙ עִֽם־הַחֲמ֔וֹר וַאֲנִ֣י וְהַנַּ֔עַר נֵלְכָ֖ה עַד־כֹּ֑ה וְנִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖ה וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

And Avraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder; we will worship and we will return to you.”

Chabad / Judaica Press

Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Bava Kama 49a. E-Daf · Sefaria — Bava Kama 49a

TT lemma: עם החמור.

עם החמור. אמר רב פפא, שור שנגח את השפחה ויצאו ילדיה משלם דמי ולדות, מאי טעמא, חמרתא מעברתא בעלמא הוא דאזיק, דאמר קרא שבו לכם פה עם החמור – עם הדומה לחמור.

“With the donkey.” Rav Pappa said: An ox that gored a [pregnant] maidservant and her young were miscarried—he pays the value of the fetuses. What is the reason? He has merely damaged a pregnant she-donkey, as the verse says, “Stay here with the donkey”—with one who is like a donkey.

On the daf / in context: The comparison determines the category of damages when a Canaanite maidservant is injured.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Bavli sugya) — not a formal named middah of the 13. The phrase governs the monetary assessment of injury to a slave-woman.

What Is Learned

When an ox causes a Canaanite maidservant to miscarry, the payment is for the fetuses as for a pregnant donkey; the verse places her with the donkey.