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אַף הַשִּׂמְלָה הָיְתָה בִכְלָל כָּל אֵלֶּה. לָמָּה יָצָאת. לְהָקִּישׁ אֵלֶיהָ, לוֹמַר לְךָ, מַה שִּׂמְלָה מְיֻחֶדֶת שֶׁיֶּשׁ בָּהּ סִימָנִים וְיֶשׁ לָהּ תּוֹבְעִים, אַף כָּל דָּבָר שֶׁיֶּשׁ בּוֹ סִימָנִים וְיֶשׁ לוֹ תוֹבְעִים, חַיָּב לְהַכְרִיז:

A garment, too, was subsumed in all these, [i.e., in (Deuteronomy 22:3): "every lost object of your brother."] Why was it singled out for special mention? [(Ibid.): "And thus shall you do with his garment"] To serve as a paradigm, viz.: Just as a garment is characterized by possessing simanim and claimants, so, all things that possess simanim and claimants must be called out. [A garment, in general, has a siman, and all garments have owners who claim them, their having been made by men and not coming from hefker. ("so, all things that have claimants":) to exclude something despaired of. "Yeush" ("despair") — hearing one say: "Woe is me for my loss!"]

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