Bava Kamma 199
בית חייהם את הדרך זו גמילות חסדים ילכו זו ביקור חולים בה זו קבורה את המעשה זה הדין אשר יעשון זו לפנים משורת הדין
the source of their livelihood;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Either the means of an honest livelihood, as explained by Rashi on B.M. 30b or the study of the living law, as interpreted by Rashi a.l. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
ריש לקיש אחוי ליה דינרא לרבי אלעזר אמר מעליא הוא אמר ליה חזי דעלך קא סמכינא א"ל כי סמכת עלי מאי למימרא דאי משתכח בישא בעינא לאיחלופי לך והא את הוא דאמרת רבי מאיר הוא דדאין דינא דגרמי מאי לאו ר' מאיר ולא סבירא לן כוותיה
the way means deeds of lovingkindness; they must walk means the visitation of the sick; wherein means burial, and the work means the law; which they must do means within the margin of the judgment.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' B.M. 30b. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
א"ל לא ר' מאיר וסבירא לן כוותיה
Resh Lakish showed a <i>denar</i> to R. Eleazar who told him that it was good. He said to him: You see that I rely upon you. He replied: Suppose you do rely on me, what of it? Do you think that if it is found bad I would have to exchange it [for a good one]? Did not you yourself state that it was [only] R. Meir who adjudicates liability in an action for damage done indirectly,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 98b. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
הי רבי מאיר אילימא רבי מאיר (ד' ל' מ' פ' סימן)
which apparently means that it was only R. Meir who maintained so whereas we did not hold in accordance with his view? — But he said to him: No; R. Meir maintained so and we hold with him. But to what [statement of] R. Meir [was the reference]? It could hardly be the one of R. Meir which we learned: If a judge in giving judgment [in a certain case] has declared innocent the person who was really liable or made liable a person who was really innocent, declared defiled a thing which was levitically clean, or declared clean a thing which was really defiled,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it so happened that that thing was consequently mixed with clean things and this spoiled them all; v. Sanh. (Sonc. ed.) p. 210, nn. 6-8. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
דתנן דן את הדין זיכה את החייב חייב את הזכאי טימא את הטהור טיהר את הטמא מה שעשה עשוי וישלם מביתו
his decision would stand, but he would have to make reparation out of his own estate,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bk. IV, 4. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
אלא הא ר' מאיר דתנן לצבוע לו אדום וצבעו שחור שחור וצבעו אדום ר' מאיר אומר נותן לו דמי צמרו התם קא עביד בידים
that [this would be so] only where he personally executed the judgment by his own hand?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., where he acted both as judge and executive officer, in which case the damage was directly committed by him personally. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
אלא הא ר' מאיר דתנן המסכך גפנו על גבי תבואתו של חבירו הרי זה קידש וחייב התם נמי קא עביד בידים
The reference therefore appears to be the one of R. Meir which we learned: [If wool was handed over to a dyer] to dye it red but he dyed it black, or to dye it black and he dyed it red, R. Meir says that he would have to pay [the owner] for the value of his wool.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. next Mishnah. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
אלא הא ר"מ דתניא מחיצת הכרם שנפרצה
But did he not in that case also spoil it with his own hands?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By dyeing it the wrong colour. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> The reference must therefore be to the one of R. Meir which we learned: He who with [the branches of] his vine covers the crops of his fellow renders them proscribed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In accordance with Deut. XXII, 9. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> and will be liable for damages.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Kil. VII, 4. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> But there also did he not do the mischief with his own hands? The reference must therefore be to the one of R. Meir which was taught: 'If the fence of a vineyard [near a field of crops] is broken through,