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אם לאו – אי אתה יכול להוציא מה שהחזרתי. אמר: הטיח עלי בן עוזיאל! הטיח עלי בן עוזיאל!
but if not, as the property is mine and I have the right to do with it whatever I want, you cannot repossess what I returned to the man’s children either. Shammai then said: Ben Uzziel reprimanded me; ben Uzziel reprimanded me, and I have no response.
מעיקרא מאי סבר? משום מעשה דבית חורון.
The Talmud asks: What did Shammai hold initially, causing him to protest Yonatan ben Uzziel’s behavior? The Talmud answers: He protested due to the incident that happened in the city of Beit Ḥoron.
דתנן: מעשה בבית חורון, באחד שהיה אביו מודר הימנו הנאה, והיה משיא בנו; ואמר לחבירו: הרי חצר וסעודה נתונין לך במתנה, ואינן לפניך אלא כדי שיבא אבא ויאכל עמנו בסעודה.
As we learned in a Mishnah (Nedarim 48a): An incident occurred involving someone in the city of Beit Ḥoron whose father had vowed not to derive benefit from him, and the son was marrying off his own son and wanted his father to be able to participate in the wedding meal. And he therefore said to another: The courtyard where the wedding will take place and the wedding meal are hereby given to you as a gift, but they are given to you only so that my father will come and eat with us at the meal. The son wanted to circumvent the prohibition imposed by the vow and enable his father to participate in the meal, so he transferred ownership to someone else for that purpose.
אמר לו: אם שלי הן – הרי הן מוקדשין לשמים! אמר לו: לא נתתי לך את שלי שתקדישם לשמים! אמר לו: לא נתת לי את שלך אלא שתהא אתה ואביך אוכלין ושותין ומרצין זה לזה, ויהא עון תלוי בראשו!
The recipient said to him: If they are mine, they are all hereby consecrated to Heaven, i.e., the Temple, and are forbidden to everyone. The son said to him in anger: I did not give you my property so that you should consecrate them to Heaven. The recipient said to him: You gave me your property only so that you and your father would eat and drink and thereby appease each other, and the sin of transgressing the vow would be hung on his, i.e., my, head, as I enabled the transgression.
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