Quoting%20commentary for Bava Kamma 44:4

אמר לך רבי שמעון בן לקיש הכא במאי עסקינן כשהצית בגופו של עבד דקם ליה בדרבה מיניה

But, according to the view that Fire is chattel, why should there be exemption? Would there be exemption also in the case of cattle killing a slave?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Ex. XXI, 32, where the liability of thirty shekels is imposed upon the owner. ');">⁵</span> — R. Simeon b. Lakish may reply to you that the exemption refers to a case where the fire was actually put upon the body of the slave<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The defendant has thus committed murder by his own hands. ');">⁶</span>

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