[Avodah] damage by children

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:59:28AM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
> : what is the halachik responsibility of parents who are visiting
> : someone and the smaller children cause damage in the house?

R' MB: 
> Is BB 5:9 (ie 87b) relevent? Someone who sends his son to the store with
> some money to get some oil, and the child breaks the jug on the way home
> and lost the change (a case my mother might remember well...): if the
> son held the family's jug and the storeowner filled it, he is patur;
> otherwise, the chakhammim require the storeowner reimberse (R Yehudah
> does not).


BK 8:4 (87a -
http://74.125.45.104/custom?q=cache:IEsSgmQohVEJ:www.mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l4
108.htm+%22%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%AA%D7%9F%22+%22%D7%A8%D7%A2%D7%94%22&
hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us or http://tinyurl.com/68yfp7) would seem to be
relevant. 

KT,
MYG