Vayeira 22:5 · unit 4

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.”

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Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Bava Kamma 49a.

TT lemma: עם החמור.

Sefaria — Bava Kamma 49a

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
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.

English: “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.