📖 SATURDAY PRAYER: HOD-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p134

READING: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN OF SATURDAY

It was taught: If one intended to pick up a thing detached (for instance, a knife that had fallen in
a row of vegetables), and while doing so (accidentally) cut off one of the growing vegetables, he
is free. 1 If, however, he intended to cut something lying on (but not attached to) the ground, and
instead cut off something growing out of (attached to) the ground, Rabha
declares him free, because no intention to cut off the growing object existed in the mind of the
man; but Abayi declares him culpable for the reason that, while the man did not intend to cut off
what he really did, still the intention to cut was prevalent in the man’s mind, and he really did
cut; hence he is that the Scriptures refer to as “one who acteth unintentionally.”