אֲבוֹת נְזִיקִין

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Primary causes of injury / chief damages

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The main categories of damage in Jewish civil law.

(“There are four primary causes of damages: the ox, the pit, the man, and the fire. The ox is not like the man, nor is the man like the ox.” – Bava Kamma 2a; and: “We know that from the primary categories of damages, whose derivatives are our poor condition, comes the abandonment of the Torah.” – Berdyczewski / Writings, vol. 2, p. 16)