Q&A: One Who Hides the Thorn
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One Who Hides the Thorn
Question
The Mishnah in Bava Kamma brings a case in which people hide glass shards and thorns. What is the reason they would do that?
Answer
I don’t know.
Discussion on Answer
I have a brilliant idea.
So people won’t get hurt.
Boom.
Drop the mic.
Maybe lest a fire be caused by glass that wasn’t put away?
(But then what’s the point of specifically hiding both of them and not just one of them?)
Maybe that was their way of throwing out waste? Burying it in the ground?