Quoting%20commentary for Shevuot 80:16

אמר רב פפא טענו כלים ופרוטה והודה בכלים וכפר בפרוטה פטור הודה בפרוטה וכפר בכלים חייב

And R''Anan said that Samuel said: If he claimed from him two needles,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though they are worth less than two ma'ahs.');">¹⁶</span> and he admitted one of them, he is liable; for therefore were 'vessels' expressly mentioned - whatever their value.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The verse (Ex. XXII, 6) states: If a man give unto his neighbour silver or vessels to keep; and we deduce that 'silver' implies a thing of value, ohpxf ;xf and 'vessels' implies two. But Scripture could have said 'silvers' ( , instead of) and we could have deduced both laws (that the claim must be for two things of value) . Hence, since Scripture specifically mentions 'vessels' separately, we infer that vessels need not be of value. [Whether the minimum of a perutah is required with vessels, depends on the reading 'everything' or 'vessels'; v. supra p. 240, n. 4 and Tosaf. vn ');">¹⁷</span>

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