For the source text click/tap here: Bava Kamma 40
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Ordinarily, an animal that kills a person will be put to death. According to the Mishna (39a) shor ha-itztadin – a “stadium ox” (i.e. a bull that was trained to fight) will not be killed if it killed a person, since the passage that teaches that law indicates that the animal will be killed if it gores, not if it was instigated by others to gore (see Shemot 21:28).
We explore the history and mythology, the antiquity and politics of the "ox in the stadium” or bullfighting!