## Malbim Ayelet HaShachar Klal 550

###### Malbim Ayelet HaShachar 550:1
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מה שכתוב "מכה נפש בהמה **ישלמנה**" הוא זרות בלשון, שלא מצאנו פעל 'שלם' בכינוי על הדבר שגרם התשלומין. וחז"ל דרשוהו (אמור ס' רמז).

**Ayelet Hashachar, translated by Betzalel Avraham Feinstein, 2021:**
When it is written מכה נפש בהמה **ישלמנה** (And he that smites a beast mortally shall make it good)⁷⁴², it is in a peculiar language, because the verb שלם (pay) should not have a pronoun referring to the thing which causes the obligation of payment. And the sages of blessed memory give a homiletical interpretation.

*The pronoun of the word***ישלמנה***refers to the thing which causes the obligation of payment, namely the beast that one smites mortally. The homiletical interpretation is that the word **ישלמנה** should be interpreted as meaning “make it good”, meaning that the one who smites the beast mortally shall compensate the owner of the beast whatever he owes⁷⁴³.*

footnotes:
⁷⁴² Leviticus 24:18.
⁷⁴³ Malbim, HaTorah v’HaMitzvah Emor 247.