Jewish%20thought for Bava Metzia 228:10

אמר ר' יוחנן משכנו ומת שומטו מעל גבי בניו מיתיבי אמר ר' מאיר וכי מאחר שממשכנין למה מחזירין למה מחזירין רחמנא אמר אהדר אלא מאחר שמחזירין

he is not bound to return it to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Every morning or evening, as the case may be, even if the debtor is in need of it. ');">¹⁸</span> Whilst 'and he transgresses all these injunctions' refers to the first clause.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. distraint. Thus Raba does not emend any part of the existing text, but adds to it. ');">¹⁹</span> R. Shizebi recited before Raba: <i>Thou shalt return it unto him until the sun goeth down</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.V.: 'Thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down,' Deut, XXIV, 13. ');">²⁰</span> — this refers to night attire; <i>in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down</i> — to an object of day attire. Said he to him: Of what use is an article of day attire by night,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Raba explains the phrases 'night attire' and 'day attire' as denoting attires taken in pledge respectively by night and day.] ');">²¹</span> and a night attire by day? Shall I then delete it? he asked. — No, was his reply. It reads thus: <i>Thou shalt return it unto him until the sun goeth down</i> — this refers to an article of day attire, which may be taken in pledge by night; <i>in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down</i> — to a night attire, which may be taken in pledge by day. R. Johanan said: If he took a pledge of him, [returned it,] and then he [the debtor] died, he may distrain it from his children. An objection is raised: R. Meir said: Now, since a pledge is taken, why is it returned?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How can the creditor's claims be satisfied? ');">²²</span> 'Why is it returned?' [you ask.]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is an interjection. ');">²³</span> — Surely Scripture ordered, Return it! But [say thus]: Since it is returned,

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