ולמיעבד דינא לנפשי' קיי"ל כרב נחמן דאפי' היכי דליכא פסידא עביד אינש דינא לנפשיה בפ' המניח (בבא קמא דף כ"ז:) אמנם אומר אני היינו בחפץ המבורר שהוא שלי רשאי אני לכנוס בחצר חברי המחזיק בספרי או בבגדי או בשום חפץ שהוא שלי וליקח אותו על כרחו אבל אם ראובן הלוה לשמעון מנה ואינו פורעו אינו רשאי למשכנו:
A owed money to B and refused to pay his debt. The Rabbis of Spiers, basing their decision on the statement of R. Nahman (B. K. 27b) that a man is permitted to take the law into his own hands, gave B permission to break into A's house and forcefully take possession of A's valuables in payment of the debt. R. Meir wrote to the Rabbis of Spiers not to ascribe legal absurdities to R. Nahman; for such interpretation of the words of R. Nahman was not only in opposition to an explicit statement of the Mishna (B. M. 9, 13) but was even against the very words of the Pentateuch (Deut. 24,10). A person is permitted according to R. Nahman, to enter into another person's house and take away an object definitely known to be his own, but he is not permitted to touch an object belonging to the other person, unless accompanied by a law-court official. SOURCES: Cr. 102; Pr. 950; L. 148; cf. Tesh. Maim. to Nezikin, 14; Beth Joseph to Hoshen Mishpat 388.
ולמיעבד דינא לנפשי' קיי"ל כרב נחמן דאפי' היכי דליכא פסידא עביד אינש דינא לנפשיה בפ' המניח (בבא קמא דף כ"ז:) אמנם אומר אני היינו בחפץ המבורר שהוא שלי רשאי אני לכנוס בחצר חברי המחזיק בספרי או בבגדי או בשום חפץ שהוא שלי וליקח אותו על כרחו אבל אם ראובן הלוה לשמעון מנה ואינו פורעו אינו רשאי למשכנו:
A owed money to B and refused to pay his debt. The Rabbis of Spiers, basing their decision on the statement of R. Nahman (B. K. 27b) that a man is permitted to take the law into his own hands, gave B permission to break into A's house and forcefully take possession of A's valuables in payment of the debt.
R. Meir wrote to the Rabbis of Spiers not to ascribe legal absurdities to R. Nahman; for such interpretation of the words of R. Nahman was not only in opposition to an explicit statement of the Mishna (B. M. 9, 13) but was even against the very words of the Pentateuch (Deut. 24,10). A person is permitted according to R. Nahman, to enter into another person's house and take away an object definitely known to be his own, but he is not permitted to touch an object belonging to the other person, unless accompanied by a law-court official.
SOURCES: Cr. 102; Pr. 950; L. 148; cf. Tesh. Maim. to Nezikin, 14; Beth Joseph to Hoshen Mishpat 388.