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SUMMARY
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BRIEF INSIGHT
A MUZZLED ANIMAL
Someone who muzzles an animal that he rented and he threshes with it he is punished with Malkus and he must pay the owner of the animal the four Kavim that it would have eaten if it is a cow and three Kavim for a donkey. Rabeinu Peretz asks why does he have to pay four Kavim of grain. If he wanted to he could have put in front of the animal straw and the animal would have eaten the straw and would not have eaten the grain at all. Rabeinu Peretz answers that if he had not muzzled the animal he could have gotten away with feeding it straw but now that he muzzled the animal the Rabanan penalize him and he must pay the amount of grain the animal would have eaten from the field.
QUICK HALACHAH
DRINKING WINE
If a worker is working on figs he may not eat grapes even though he was hired to work on both of them, but he may refrain from eating until he reaches the superior produce and eat there. Therefore workers who had not yet walked to and fro on the wine press may eat grapes but not the juice because the Melachah they did on the wine is not yet obvious and it is akin to working on one type and eating from another type. Once they walked to and fro on the press they may eat from the grapes and from the wine. (Shulchan Aruch CM 337:9)
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