[Avodah] How do we evaluate nezeq nowadays of a person?

Zev Sero via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Mon Aug 22 04:59:22 PDT 2016


On 22/08/16 00:18, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
> The first mishna in hachovel states that if you knock someone's eye
> out etc. you pay based on the difference in value that he would be
> sold on the slave market with and without an eye. How would this work
> today when we have no slave market? The shulchan aruch just quotes
> the din of the Gemara as does the Aruch Hashulchan and even the
> Pischei Choshen that you evaluate him as a slave. What would the din
> be today when we have no slave market?

Since our batei din without semicha have no authority to judge dinei
chavalos anyway, the issue is moot.

-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis



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