Commentary for Bava Kamma 169:20

ואי א"ל אסייך אנא א"ל דמית עלי כאריא ארבא ואי א"ל מייתינא אסיא דמגן במגן א"ל אסיא דמגן במגן מגן שוה

We must therefore say that all are agreed that a wound may be bandaged, but not too much; R. Judah held that since it may not be bandaged too much [it is only] for Healing of which there is a double mention in Scripture that there will be liability, but for Loss of Time of which there is no double mention in Scripture there will be no liability, whereas the Rabbis maintained that since Scripture made a double mention of healing there will be liability also for Loss of Time which is compared to Healing. R. Judah, however, maintained that there will be no liability for Loss of Time as Scripture excepted this by [the term] 'only';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXI, 19. ');">¹¹</span>

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