Commentary for Berakhot 9:18
ק"ו משן ועין מה שן ועין שהן אחד מאבריו של אדם עבד יוצא בהן לחרות יסורין שממרקין כל גופו של אדם על אחת כמה וכמה
concerning "the tooth and eye. " Should the tooth or eye of a slave be injured, which is only one of the members of a man's body, he thereby obtains his freedom, how much more so with the sufferings which afflict the whole body of a man ! This is in accord with the statement of R. Simeon b. Lakish who said:
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
See Exod. xxi. 26 f.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
If God ordained that a slave should be set free whose eye or tooth had been damaged, will He not show His mercy to His creatures who suffer more than that!
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