The Weekly Daf #17
Bava Kama 100-106
Week of 24-30 Sivan 5754/3-9 June 1994 
By Rabbi Mendel Weinbach, Dean, Ohr Somayach Institutions         
 
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What No One Gives Away

Case 1:   Someone donates everything he owns to the Sanctuary.
Results:  The Sanctuary trustee cannot claim the clothes which the
          contributor has provided for his wife and children nor the new
          shoes he has purchased for them.
Reason:   A man who consecrates his possessions does not have in mind the
          clothes of his wife and children.

Case 2:   Someone donates everything he owns to the Sanctuary.
Results:  Even his Tefillin belong to the Sanctuary.
Reason:   ?

Why don't we use the same logic as in Case One and rule that the donor 
certainly did not have in mind to give away the Tefillin he uses?

The answer, says the Sage Abaye, is that the man who is donating everything 
to the Sanctuary feels that giving away his Tefillin to a holy cause is as 
important a mitzvah as holding on to them.  But giving away the clothes of 
his wife and children will rupture his relationship with them so he 
definitely did not have that in mind.
Bava Kama 102b
 
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Walking in the Way of Hashem

"You will let them know," said Yisro to his son-in-law Moshe, "_the_ way
in which they shall walk." 
Shmos 18:20

"_the_ way" -- refers to acts of kindness to others.
Bava Kama 100a

The definitive designation of the way communicates the sense of the 
ultimate way, the way of Hashem.  Walking in the way of Hashem, say the 
Sages, means emulating His way by clothing the naked as He did for Adam and 
Chava, visiting the sick as He did for Avrohom, burying the dead as He did 
for Moshe and comforting the mourners as He did for Yitzchak.
Maharsha
 
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