Excerpt From Blog Post:by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
If ...[one was walking] with a barrel ahead of one with a beam, and the barrel is broken by the beam, the one with the beam is responsible; and if the one with the barrel stopped [suddenly] then the one with the beam is free of responsibility; but if he said to the one with the beam "Stop!" then the one with the beam is responsible.
-Mishnah Baba Kamma 3:5
The other day I had occasion to take a cab across town in Tel Aviv. The driver, who appeared to be in his fifties, tossed that morning's tabloid paper to me as I sat down, apparently so that our conversation could be text-based. The headline had to do with the current basketball scandal: the manager...