Reference for Bava Kamma 72:17

א"ל רב יוסף כבר זכו ביה עניים ואף על גב דליכא עניים הכא אנן יד עניים אנן דאמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל יתומים

To which R. Tobiah replied: Has then the Tanna to string out cases like a peddler?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who cries the whole list of his wares. Cf. Git. 33a. ');">¹⁵</span> What, however, is the solution?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As to the exact meaning of sela'. ');">¹⁶</span> — The solution was gathered from the statement made by Rab Judah on behalf of Rab:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Kid. 11b and Bek. 50b. ');">¹⁷</span> 'Wherever money<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Lit., 'silver'. The market value of silver coinage was determined by Tyre, v. Krauss, op. cit., II, 405] ');">¹⁸</span> is mentioned in the Torah, the reference is to Tyrian money, but wherever it occurs in the words of the Rabbis it means local<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'the country'. ');">¹⁹</span> money.' The plaintiff upon hearing that said to the judge: 'Since it will [only] amount to half a <i>zuz</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As stated by the anonymous view. ');">¹²</span> I do not want it; let him give it to the poor.' Later, however, he said; 'Let him give it to me, as I will go and obtain a cure for myself with it.' But R. Joseph said to him: The poor have already acquired a title to it, for though the poor were not present here, we [in the Court, always] act as the agents<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'hand'. ');">²⁰</span> of the poor, as Rab Judah said on behalf of Samuel:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Git. 37a. ');">²¹</span> Orphans

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