Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 48:20

יכול יבשה גפה נקטעה רגלה נחטטה עינה ת"ל מן העוף ולא כל העוף

and blinds the child within her, he is free [from punishment].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The child, on birth, is not emancipated. There he does not intend doing anything to its eye at all, but here he does.');">³⁶</span> What is the reason? - Because Scripture said: 'and he destroy it', [implying], only when he intends to destroy it. And the other?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Simeon b. Gamaliel: does he not admit that the word is needed for such a case?');">³⁷</span>

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