Quoting%20commentary for Bava Kamma 167:17
אמרי דנין נזקין מנזקין ואין דנין נזקין ממיתה אדרבה דנין אדם מאדם ואין דנין אדם מבהמה
and only if the offender will be able to stand it will retaliation be adopted, but if he will not be able to stand it, retaliation will not be adopted? And if after we estimate that he would be able to stand it and execute retaliation it so happens that his spirit departs from him, [there is nobody to blame,] as if he dies, let him die. For have we not learnt regarding lashes: 'Where according to estimation he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who is subject to the thirty-nine lashes for having transgressed a negative commandment. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>
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