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Positive Mitzvah 242: The Unpaid Watchman

Exodus 22:6 "If a man gives his neighbor money or vessels to watch"

This Positive Mitzvah deals with the laws that apply when one person
watches another person's object, but does not receive any payment for
this favor. If that object is lost or stolen, the Torah provides
specific instructions about the watchman's responsibilities.

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Sometimes the Torah will tell you one thing, later contradict itself,
and then later reveal a third concept that settles the contradiction.
With Torah, you don't get all the answers at once. First you must
absorb and live with one simple truth. Then later you must find
another truth -- one that may seem to conflict with and negate all you
previously learned. Then, from that confusion, emerges a higher truth
-- the inner light behind all you had learned before.

By Rabbi Tzvi Freeman -