Bava Kama 43 and 44 – Spreading Light

Today’s Talmud pages, Bava Kama 43 and 44, asks what happens when an ox or a person intend to kill another animal—or another human—and end up killing someone else by mistake. This piece of Talmud reminds us of the need to consider intent when thinking about the killing of another, that there is a difference between killing someone by mistake and doing it intentionally. This concept brings to mind an interview that was done recently which included the testimony of Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha, a member of Hamas’s Nukhba brigade who participated in the massacre of 62 innocents in Kfar Aza. How are we to respond to the darkness of such indiscriminate killings? Listen and find out.

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