Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Kamma 20:8
פשיטא
When ten persons beat a man with ten sticks, whether simultaneously or successively, so that he died, none of them is guilty of murder. R. Judah b. Bathyra says: If [they hit] successively, the last is liable, for he was the immediate cause of the death!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sanh. 78a and infra p. 139. [Why then was this ruling of R. Judah not taken as a further illustration of the Mishnaic principle?] ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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