daf bit: Bava Kama 23
We talked last week about the categories of mu'ad and tam.
A mishna on today's daf describes them, saying: cattle become mu'ad
(known to cause damage, so the owner has to take precautions) after the
owner has been warned for three days (regarding the act of goring), but
return to the state of tam (it couldn't have been reasonably
foreseen) after refraining from goring for three days. These are the
words of R' Yehudah. R' Meir, on the other hand, says cattle become
mu'ad after the owner had been warned three times, even on the same
day, and become again tam when children keep touching them and they
don't get gored. (23b)
In the g'mara they discuss the other two permutations -- that we follow R' Yehudah for mu'ad and R' Meir for tam, and the reverse. Final answer? I don't know.
In the g'mara they discuss the other two permutations -- that we follow R' Yehudah for mu'ad and R' Meir for tam, and the reverse. Final answer? I don't know.