What the Fist Teaches About Liability for a Blow

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 331:4

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Another interpretation: if it fell, one returns and rebuilds it. Rather, just as a fist is distinctive in that it can be observed by witnesses, so too anything that can be observed by witnesses [is included]; this excludes the case where a stone flew from beneath the hand of the one who struck, in which case he is exempt.

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