Bava Metzia 42B

כל המפקיד, על דעת אשתו ובניו הוא מפקיד.

With regard to anyone who deposits an item with another, it is with the awareness that at times, the bailee’s wife and his children will safeguard the item that he deposits it. Therefore, I was within my rights to give the deposit to my mother.

נימא לה לאימיה: זילי שלימי, אמרה: לא אמר לי דלאו דידיה נינהו דאקברינהו.

Let us say to his mother: Go and pay. She can say: My son did not tell me that the money is not his so that I should bury it, which is the optimal method to safeguard money.

נימא ליה: אמאי לא אמרת לה? אמר: כל שכן, דכי אמינא לה דדידי נינהו ⁠– טפי מזדהרא בהו.

Let us say to the bailee: Why did you not say to her that the money is not yours? He can say: All the more so that my omission of this information was preferable, as when I say to her that the money is mine, she is even more careful with it.

אלא אמר רבא: משתבע איהו דהנהו זוזי אשלמינהו לאימיה, ומשתבעא אימיה דהנהו זוזי אותבינהו בקרטליתא ואיגנוב ⁠– ופטור.

Rather, Rava said: The bailee takes an oath that he gave the money to his mother, and his mother takes an oath that she placed the money in the chest and it was stolen, and the bailee is exempt from payment.

ההוא אפוטרופא דיתמי דזבן להו תורא ליתמי ומסריה לבקרא. לא הוו ליה ככי ושיני למיכל, ומית. אמר רמי בר חמא: היכי נדיינו דייני להאי דינא?

The Talmud relates: There was a certain steward who acted on behalf of orphans, who purchased an ox for the orphans and passed it to the cowherd. This ox did not have molars and other teeth with which to eat, and the ox died because it was unable to eat the standard food of oxen. Rami bar Ḥama said: How should judges rule in this case?