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Musar su Esodo 21:28

וְכִֽי־יִגַּ֨ח שׁ֥וֹר אֶת־אִ֛ישׁ א֥וֹ אֶת־אִשָּׁ֖ה וָמֵ֑ת סָק֨וֹל יִסָּקֵ֜ל הַשּׁ֗וֹר וְלֹ֤א יֵאָכֵל֙ אֶת־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ וּבַ֥עַל הַשּׁ֖וֹר נָקִֽי׃

Qualora un bue cozzi un uomo o una donna, in guisa che ne muoja, il bue sarà lapidato, e non se ne mangerà la carne, ed il proprietario del bue sarà immune.

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

סקול יסקל השור ולא יאכל את בשרו. The ox must be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten." Rabbi Menachem Habavli explains that the reason for this injunction is that once the verdict on the ox has been pronounced, i.e. that it is to be executed, its flesh is automatically forbidden, just as we have the rule that כל שעתיד להשרף כשרוף דמי, that anything that is to be burned, is considered for legal purposes as if it had already been burned. Anyone who has become the instrument of harm or death to a third party becomes detested and one must not derive any benefit from such person or thing. Such a person's fate is to be "consumed" by others. A שליח לדבר עברה, someone designated to perform a transgression, can no longer serve as עץ מאכל, a fruit-bearing tree.
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