DEUT1338 The prohibition is not restricted to these articles only, but you all utensils used in the preparation of food, such as: kneading troughs, pots for cooking, the schochet's knife and the like, since all are included in the category of "For he takes the man's life to pledge." Certainly if the messenger of the court or the lender were to enter the borrower's house and take such articles as pledges, he would all the more guilty – since he would be transgressing this special prohibition in addition to the commandment forbidding entry into the debtor's house to seize a pledge.