Quoting%20commentary for Bava Metzia 115:8

נושא שכר אינו משלם: רמי ליה רב יוסף בר חמא לרבה תנן נושא שכר אינו משלם ורמינהי השוכר את הפועל לשמור את הפרה לשמור את התינוק לשמור את הזרעים אין נותנין לו שכר שבת לפיכך אין אחריות שבת עליו

— But, said R. Eleazar, this oath was [in pursuance of] a rabbinical enactment, that people might not treat sacred objects lightly.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which would be the case if the mere statement that the shekels had been lost or stolen sufficed. But our Mishnah which teaches that there is no oath refers to the Biblical law. ');">¹⁵</span> NOR DOES A PAID BAILEE MAKE IT GOOD. R. Joseph b. Hama pointed out a contradiction to Rabbah. We learnt, NOR DOES A PAID BAILEE MAKE IT GOOD. But the following contradicts it: If one [sc: the Temple treasurer] engages a [day] worker to look after the heifer,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The red heifer (Num. XIX). The guardian was to take care that no yoke came upon it (ibid. 2). ');">¹⁶</span>

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