Parshas Mishpatim (Rebroadcast)
The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
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Why You Pay Five Times for an Ox and Four Times for a Sheep
Sarashi tells us this means that the owner cannot benefit from the animal at all. If you steal an ox, you pay five times its value to the owner. And if you stole a sheep, you pay four times its value in punishment. Zarashi offers us two reasons for this discrepancy. The first reason is that when someone has to transport an ox, the ox walks on its own and therefore he had to carry it on his shoulders. This reduces their sentence - they have to pay four times what they stole instead of double. Alternately, rashi gives us second reason why the person who pays, who steals and slaughters or sells an ox, pays five whereas doing the same
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