Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Bava Kamma 82:4

ולהנך תנאי דמפקי ליה להאי בעל השור נקי לדרשה אחרינא [כדבעינן למימר קמן] הנאת עורו מנא להו

And now that the prohibition in respect both of food and of any [other] use has been derived from [the text] <i>'his flesh shall not be eaten'</i>, what additional teaching is afforded to me by [the words] <i>'The owner of the ox shall be quit'</i>? — [The prohibition of] the use of the skin. For otherwise you might have been inclined to think that it was only the flesh that had been proscribed from being used, whereas the skin should be permitted to be used; we are therefore told [that this is not the case but] that <i>'the owner of the ox shall be quit</i>.' But what of those Tannaim who employ this [text], <i>'The owner of the ox shall be quit'</i> for deriving other implications (as we will indeed have to explain <i>infra</i>);<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. pp. 236-239. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>

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Shoel uMeshiv Mahadura I

And behold, on the week of the holy Shabbat of Parashat Toldot that year, two letters reached me speaking and advocating on behalf of the same man. And this is what I responded to them both at once: That which you wrote to excuse why you didn’t accept testimony, writing first on the basis of the statement of Maharam Mintz in Responsum 75, that testimony may not be collected for slanderous purposes, the response is self-evident: the present case is different, because the purpose is to keep him from sinning. I add that this is evident also from the case of a single witness, where we maintain that “Tuvia sins but Zigod [the lone witness] gets lashes,” yet Shulhan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat 28 explains that to prevent someone from sinning, it is permitted [to hear a lone witness]. As to your honor’s contention that the content of the witnesses’ testimony is null since they are minors, I wrote the same in my responsum, so I do not understand [the contention]. Similarly, your honor’s contention that the testimonies are separate [i.e., they are not reporting on the same event], and to disqualify someone there must be a single testimony [by multiple witnesses to the same event], as it is like a capital case, I do not understand [the contention], for I said something even stronger – there is not even separate testimony, as he is like a hunter.
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