Today's Mishnah Yomi
Bava Metzia 2:6 - 2:7
The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, September 23, 2024 is Bava Metzia 2:6 - 2:7
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Bava Metzia Perek 2 Mishnah 6
בבא מציעא פרק ב׳ משנה ו׳
Bartenura
שכניו. שכני מקום שנמצאת בו האבידה, שמא שלהן היא:
כדי שילך. כל אחד לביתו בשלשה ימים. משישמע ההכרזה וידע אם אבד לו כלום, ואם יראה שאבד יחזור שלשה ויכריז יום אחד אני איבדתי ואלו סימניה והלכה כרבי יהודה. ומשחרב בית המקדש התקינו שיהיו מכריזין בבתי כנסיות ובבתי מדרשות. ומשרבו האנסין דאמרי אבידתא למלכא, התקינו שיהא מודיע לשכניו ולמיודעיו ודיו:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Bava Metzia Perek 2 Mishnah 7
בבא מציעא פרק ב׳ משנה ז׳
Bartenura
Anything which does work and eats. If the lost item is something that you can feed with the produce of its work, for example an ox or a donkey.
One may use it [to do work] and feed it. Don't sell the found item, since all people are pleased with their animal which recognizes them already, and has trained it to their liking. [However] you are not obligated to take care of it forever, rather a chicken and a large animal you take care for 12 months. Calves and baby horses for pasture, meaning that they aren't grown to fatten them up, and similarly kids and sheep, you take care of them for 3 months. Calves for fattening you take care of for 30 days. Geese and roosters, small ones you take care of for 30 days and big ones (which eat a lot) you take care of for 3 days. After this time you take them for yourself and assess their value, or you sell them to others and hide the money.
Therefore if they [the money] were lost he is responsible. Since the Rabbis permitted him to use them [the money], even though he didn't use them, he is considered as if he used them, and he is responsible. The halacha is like Rabbi Tarfon regarding the value of a lost item which was sold. However, money itself that was lost, for example he found money in a purse or three coins that were on top of another, he is not to use them at all.
כל דבר שעושה ואוכל. אם האבדה דבר שיכולים להאכילו את שכר מעשיו, כגון שור וחמור:
יעשה ויאכל. ולא ימכור אותו המוצא, שכל אדם נוח לו בבהמתו שהכירה בו כבר ולימדה לרצונו. ואינו חייב להטפל בה לעולם, אלא תרנגולת ובהמה גסה מטפל בה י״ב חדש. עגלים וסייחים של רעיה, כלומר שאין מגדלים אותם לפטם וכן גדיים וטלאים, מטפל בהם שלשה חדשים. ועגלים של פיטום מטפל בהם שלשים יום. אווזין ותרנגולים זכרים, הקטנים מטפל בהן שלשים יום והגדולים שאוכלים הרבה מטפל בהן שלשה ימים מכאן ואילך לוקח אותם הוא לעצמו בשומא כפי שוויין, או מוכרן לאחרים ומניח הדמים אצלו:
לפיכך אם אבדו חייב באחריותן. כיון דשרו ליה רבנן לאשתמושי בהו, אע״ג דלא אשתמש בהו כמאן דאשתמש דמי, וחייב באחריותן. והלכה כר׳ טרפון בדמי אבדה שמכר. אבל מעות עצמן של אבדה, כגון שמצא מעות בכיס או שלשה מטבעות זו על גבי זו, לא ישתמש בהם כלל:
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His neighbours. The neighbours of the place where the item was found, lest it belongs to one of them.
In order that each one will go their home in three days. from when he hears the announcement and knows if he lost anything, and if he sees he lost it he'll return [there] in three [days] and announce for one day "I lost it and these are its markers", and the halacha is like Rabbi Yehudah. Since the Temple was destroyed, they [the sages] enacted that announcements should be made in the synagogues and study halls. And since the aggressors increased, those that say "Lost items go to the King", they [the sages] enacted that he [the finder] should inform his neighbours and those he knows and that's sufficient.