Commentary for Bava Metzia 117:4

אמר רב חננא בריה דרב אידי מאי דכתיב (ויקרא כה, יז) ולא תונו איש את עמיתו עם שאתך בתורה ובמצות אל תונהו אמר רב לעולם יהא אדם זהיר באונאת אשתו שמתוך שדמעתה מצויה אונאתה קרובה

For it is written, when she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law [etc].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 25. She left it to him to confess but did not openly accuse him, choosing death rather than publicly putting him to shame. ');">⁸</span> R. Hanina, son of R. Idi, said: What is meant by the verse, Ye shall not wrong one another ['amitho]? — Wrong not a people that is with you in learning and good deeds.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is a play of words on [H] ('his fellowman') reading it as two words, [H], the 'people that is with him.' ');">⁹</span>

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