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Shevuos 5:4 - 5:5

The Mishnah Yomi for Saturday, March 1, 2025 is Shevuos 5:4 - 5:5

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Mishnah 1

Mishnayos Shevuos Perek 5 Mishnah 4

שבועות פרק ה׳ משנה ד׳

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The mishna continues: If one accuses another: You raped or you seduced my daughter, and the other says: I did not rape and I did not seduce your daughter, to which the father replied: I administer an oath to you, and the defendant said: Amen, the defendant is liable to bring a guilt-offering if it is a false oath. Rabbi Shimon deems him exempt, since one does not pay a fine based on his own admission. Had he confessed he would have been exempt from paying the fine; he is therefore not liable for his denial. The Rabbis said to him: Even though he does not pay the fine based on his own admission, he does pay compensation for humiliation and compensation for degradation resulting from her being raped or seduced, which are monetary claims and not fines, based on his own admission. He is therefore liable for a false oath, as he denied a monetary claim.
אָנַסְתָּ וּפִתִּיתָ אֶת בִּתִּי, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לֹא אָנַסְתִּי וְלֹא פִתִּיתִי. מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, חַיָּב. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן פּוֹטֵר, שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְשַׁלֵּם קְנָס עַל פִּי עַצְמוֹ. אָמְרוּ לוֹ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְשַׁלֵּם קְנָס עַל פִּי עַצְמוֹ, מְשַׁלֵּם בּשֶׁת וּפְגָם עַל פִּי עַצְמוֹ:
ד׳

שאינו משלם קנס על פי עצמו (he does not pay a fine on the basis of his own testimony) – and since he admitted, he is not liable but if he denied it also, he did not deny monetary payment.

אבל משלם בושת ופגם – therefore, he denied the monetary [payment], but it is dispute between the Rabbis and Rabbi Shimon, for Rabbi Shimon holds that when if he said to him: ‘You raped or seduced my daughter,” he can claim a fine from him whose monetary amount is fixed at fifty silver, but he cannot claim from him humiliation and deterioration, whose monetary [figure] is not fixed, for a person will not forego the claim of a definite quantity, and demand something undefined (requiring appraisement) (see Tractate Ketubot 43a), therefore, he has denied a fine and is exempt. But the Rabbis hold that humiliation and deterioration he also claims from him, for a person will not forego something when he admits to it and will not be exempt and when he makes a claim on something when he admits to it, he is exempt; therefore, when he denies it, he has denied him monetary [payment] and he is liable. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

שאינו משלם קנס על פי עצמו. וכיון דכי אודי לא מחייב, כי כפר נמי לאו ממונא כפר ליה:

אבל משלם בושת ופגם. הלכך ממונא כפר. ופלוגתא דרבנן ור׳ שמעון, דר׳ שמעון סבר כי אמר ליה אנסת או פיתית את בתי, קנסא קתבע מיניה שדמיו קצובין חמשים כסף, ולא קא תבע מיניה בושת ופגם שאין דמיו קצובים, דלא שביק אינש מידי דקייץ ותבע מידי דלא קייץ, הלכך קנסא כפר ליה ופטור. ורבנן סברי, בושת ופגם קא תבע ליה, דלא שביק איניש מידי דכי מודה ביה לא מפטר ותבע מידי דכי מודה ביה מפטר, הלכך כי כפר ליה, ממונא כפר ליה וחייב. ואין הלכה כר׳ שמעון:

Mishnah 2

Mishnayos Shevuos Perek 5 Mishnah 5

שבועות פרק ה׳ משנה ה׳

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Similarly, in a case where one person accuses another: You stole my ox, and the defendant says: I did not steal your ox, if the claimant replied: I administer an oath to you, and the defendant said: Amen, he is liable to pay for the ox due to the theft and to bring a guilt-offering if he lied, since by his oath he is denying that he owes the value of the ox that he would have to pay if he admitted to stealing it. But in a case where the claimant accuses the defendant of stealing the ox and slaughtering or selling it, and the defendant says: I stole the ox, but I did not slaughter or sell it, and this is a lie, if the claimant replied: I administer an oath to you, and he said: Amen, then the defendant is exempt from the fivefold payment for slaughtering or selling another’s ox, since it is a fine. If the claimant says: Your ox killed my ox, and the defendant lies and says: It did not kill your ox, to which the claimant replied: I administer an oath to you, and he said: Amen, then he is liable for his false oath. But if the claimant says: Your ox killed my Canaanite slave and you are therefore liable to pay me a fine of thirty shekels, and he lies and says: It did not kill your slave, to which the claimant replied: I administer an oath to you, and he said: Amen, then he is exempt, because payment for the slave is a fine. If the claimant said to him: You injured me and caused me a wound, and the defendant says: I did not injure you and I did not cause you a wound, to which the claimant replies: I administer an oath to you, and he said: Amen, he is liable. But if one’s Canaanite slave said to him: You knocked out my tooth, or: You blinded my eye, and you are therefore required to emancipate me, and he says: I did not knock out your tooth, or: I did not blind your eye, to which the slave replies: I administer an oath to you, and he said: Amen, he is exempt from bringing a guilt-offering even though he lied, since the obligation to emancipate one’s slave in these cases is a penalty. This is the principle: For any claim that the defendant would have to pay based on his own admission, he is liable to bring a guilt-offering for taking a false oath concerning that claim. And for any claim that he would not pay based on his own admission but would pay only by the testimony of witnesses, he is exempt from bringing a guilt-offering for taking a false oath concerning that claim.
גָּנַבְתָּ אֶת שׁוֹרִי, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לֹא גָנַבְתִּי, מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, חַיָּב. גָּנַבְתִּי אֲבָל לֹא טָבַחְתִּי וְלֹא מָכָרְתִּי, מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, פָּטוּר. הֵמִית שׁוֹרְךָ אֶת שׁוֹרִי, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לֹא הֵמִית, מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, חַיָּב. הֵמִית שׁוֹרְךָ אֶת עַבְדִּי, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לֹא הֵמִית, מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, פָּטוּר. אָמַר לוֹ, חָבַלְתָּ בִי וְעָשִׂיתָ בִּי חַבּוּרָה, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לֹא חָבַלְתִּי וְלֹא עָשִׂיתִי בְךָ חַבּוּרָה, מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, חַיָּב. אָמַר לוֹ עַבְדּוֹ, הִפַּלְתָּ אֶת שִׁנִּי וְסִמִּיתָ אֶת עֵינִי, וְהוּא אוֹמֵר לֹא הִפַּלְתִּי וְלֹא סִמִּיתִי, מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אָנִי, וְאָמַר אָמֵן, פָּטוּר. זֶה הַכְּלָל, כָּל הַמְשַׁלֵּם עַל פִּי עַצְמוֹ, חַיָּב. וְשֶׁאֵינוֹ מְשַׁלֵּם עַל פִּי עַצְמוֹ, פָּטוּר:
ה׳

המית שורך את עבדי – it is a fine, that he pays thirty Selaim, even if it is not worth other a Denar.

אמר לו עבדו הפלת את שיני – it is fine that he should set his servant free because of one of his limbs.

המית שורך את עבדי. קנסא הוא, דמשלם שלשים סלעים אפילו אינו שוה אלא דינר:

אמר לו עבדו הפלת את שיני. קנסא הוא שיוציא עבדו לחירות בשביל אחד מאבריו:

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