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Our daf deals with situations when we cause the damage ourselves? The rabbis teach that we are always mu'ad: we are liable for the damage that we do to others. What about what we do when we are drunk? well, say the rabbis, we put ourselves in the situation that allowed us to become drunk, and so we are responsible for the damages that we have done in that state.
But what about when we are asleep? This seems to be an exception. Unless of course we fall asleep within the range of things that we could damage. In that case, we are fully responsible for damages that we cause when we are asleep.
We return to the literary devices used in the geological strata of the Gemara using the work of Shama Friedman, Jeffrey Rubinstein and, of course, Prof Louis Jacobs.