tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7849130.post8016798705659497056..comments2023-09-15T02:56:52.667-07:00Comments on Ed Gurowitz's Blog: Column 120 – Whose Ox is Being Gored?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073260296411971022noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7849130.post-35646617840645485902013-04-24T15:14:53.560-07:002013-04-24T15:14:53.560-07:00This idiom may have origins in the world of Judais... This idiom may have origins in the world of Judaism. Exodus 21.35 refers to the remedies when one's ox gores his neighbor's ox. Subsequent Talmudic and later rabbinical commentaries on this verse discussed what remedies were owed when the goring ox's owner is Jewish, and the gored ox's owner is Gentile, and vice versa. Some argued that the Jew owed the Gentile nothing, others that the Exodus 21:35 remedies applied evenly no matter whose ox is gored. The confusion over this idiom's meaning may be because we are not as biblically literate as previous generations.<br /><br /> Reference: Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Kamma 38a. <br /><br /><br />Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Discuss:What_is_the_meaning_of_no_matter_whose_ox_is_gored#ixzz2RQ8obHb7<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com