Commentary for Bava Kamma 68:5

אלא א"ר יוחנן שבח נבילה איכא בינייהו דמ"ס דניזק הוי ומ"ס פלגא

to entail a more severe penalty or a more lenient one? You must surely say: [to entail] a more severe penalty. Now, if in the case of <i>Mu'ad</i> no payment is made but for the amount of the damage, should this not the more so be true in the case of <i>Tam</i> the [penalty in respect of which is] less severe?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why should then the defendant in the case of Tam share the loss occasioned by a decrease in the value of the carcass which he would not have to do in the case of Mu'ad? ');">⁹</span> — R. Johanan therefore said: The practical difference between them<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Meir and R. Judah. ');">¹⁰</span>

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