Midrash for Bava Metzia 65:2
הא מני ר' יוסי הגלילי היא דאמר צער בעלי חיים דרבנן
<i>'under its burden'</i>, but not if it is unloaded;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One is not obliged to help in loading it up again. The Gemara objects further in that this is explicitly ordered in Deut. XXII, 4. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 22:1) "You shall not see (the ox of your brothers or his lamb straying and [you shall] ignore them. Return shall you return them to your brother." "You shall not see": I might think, even if he were a mil away; it is, therefore, written (Shemoth 23:4) "If you encounter (the ox of your foe, etc.") If "If you encounter," I might think, literally; it is, therefore, written "You shall not see." How is this to be resolved? The sages estimated one-seventh of a mil, a ris.
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