Unpublished article. The sugya is Bava Kama 13b-14a. According to Rabbinic interpretation of Exodus 21: 35-36 and 22: 4, if damage is done by a goring ox—keren, ‘horn’—the owner has to pay only half the damage and the same law applies to every form of malicious or unusual damage done by any animal e.g. biting,…