Commentary for Shevuot 85:1
(שמות כב, ו) כי יתן איש אל רעהו כלל כסף או כלים פרט לשמור חזר וכלל כלל ופרט וכלל אי אתה דן אלא כעין הפרט מה הפרט מפורש דבר המטלטל וגופו ממון אף כל דבר המטלטל וגופו ממון
If a man give unto his neighbour<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXII, 6; this verse deals with an unpaid guardian (v. B.M. 94b) , who takes an oath that he has not been wilfully neglectful, and is exempt from making restitution.');"><sup>1</sup></span> - is a generalisation; silver or vessels - are specifications; to keep - is another generalisation: where there is generalisation, specification, and generalisation, you may include only those things which are similar to the specification: just as the specification is clearly a thing which is movable and intrinsically worth money, so everything which is movable, and intrinsically worth money [may be included], but exclude lands, which are not movable, exclude slaves, which are likened to land, and exclude bonds which, though they are movable, are not intrinsically worth money.
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