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אם אבדו — אינו חייב באחריותן. ואם היה שכיר שבת, שכיר חדש, שכיר שנה, שכיר שבוע — נותן לו שכר שבת. לפיכך אם אבדו — חייב באחריותן.
if the items that the laborer was entrusted to watch were lost on Shabbat, he does not bear financial responsibility to compensate the owners for them, since he is not a paid bailee on that day. And if he is a laborer hired for a week, hired for a month, hired for a year, or hired for 7 years, the one who hired him gives him payment for labor performed on Shabbat as well. Therefore, if the items were lost on Shabbat, he bears financial responsibility to compensate the owners for them. If payment for Shabbat is incorporated within payment for a longer period, it is not prohibited to accept payment for permitted actions performed on Shabbat.
אלא: גבי שבת היינו טעמא דאין קוראין בתחילה — משום דיפנו אבהתהון דינוקי למצותא דשבתא. ואיבעית אימא: משום דבשבתא אכלין ושתין ויקיר עליהון עלמא. כדאמר שמואל: שינוי וסת תחילת חולי מעיים.
Rather, with regard to Shabbat, this is the reason that children may not read a passage in the Bible for the first time on Shabbat, so that the fathers of the children will be at leisure to fulfill the mitzva of delighting in Shabbat. Teaching new material to their children would occupy more of their fathers’ time, limiting their opportunity to fulfill that mitzva. And if you wish, say instead: Due to the fact that on Shabbat children eat and drink more than they are accustomed to eating, their world is heavy upon them, i.e., their head and their limbs are sluggish, and they are incapable of concentrating and studying well, as Shmuel said: A change in routine [veset] in eating and the like causes the onset of an intestinal ailment.
ולמאן דאמר שכר פיסוק טעמים, מאי טעמא לא אמר שכר שימור? קסבר בנות מי קא בעיין שימור?
And according to the one who says that the payment for teaching Bible is payment for teaching punctuation of the text with cantillation notes, and therefore in the case of one for whom benefit from another is forbidden by vow, that other person may not teach his sons and daughters Bible, what is the reason that he did not say that it is payment for watching the children? The Talmud answers: He holds: Do girls need watching? They stay home and are not accustomed to going out.