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Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra 2.1

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

MISHNAH: A person may not dig a cistern close to his neighbor’s cistern, nor a ditch, nor a cave, nor a water canal, nor a washer’s pond except if he distanced himself from his neighbor’s wall three handbreadths and lined with lime. One removes olive peat, and manure, and salt, and lime, and rocks from his neighbor’s wall three handbreadths or lines with lime. One distances seeds, and ploughs, and urine three handbreadths from the wall. One distances a grindstone three from the base, which means four from the moving stone, and the oven three from the base, which means four from its rim.

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HALAKHAH: “A person may not dig a cistern,” etc. So is the Mishnah: “[A person may not dig a cistern close to the wall of his neighbor’s cistern. Nor a ditch, nor a cave, nor a water canal, nor a washer’s pond except if he distanced himself from his neighbor’s wall three handbreadths] and lined with lime. If he lined with lime, any distance. If he did not line with lime, three handbreadths. From the following: “One removes olive peat, and manure, and salt, and lime, and rocks from his neighbor’s wall three handbreadths or lines with lime.” Here you say, because rocks generate heat. But there you say that they do not generate heat. Rebbi Yose said, in no case do rocks generate heat. But because they loosen the earth and damage the ground around the wall.

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English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

It was stated: “If it was solid rock, it is permitted.” As we say, Rebbi Joḥanan left the synagogue and let water behind the door. But we do not know whether it was because it was solid rock or because he suffered pain and could no bear it.

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This means, about grindstones there, but for our grindstones three from the pine cone which is four from the enclosure. “And the oven three from the base which are four from its rim.” Rebbi Yudan bar Pazi said, from the outer rim inwards; but the rabbis say, from the inner rim outwards. If if was built like a dovecote, what [are the rules]? Let us hear from the following: “Rebbi Jehudah said, unless there be under it insulating material three handbreadths and for a stove one handbreadth.” Is a stove not build like a dovecote, and you say both above and below a handbreadth? Also here, both above and below a handbreadth.

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The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. · Source ↗

Hebrew/Aramaic text: The Jerusalem Talmud, edition by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015), via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

The Jerusalem Talmud, edition, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015). CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org); commentary notes omitted. · Source ↗

English translation: The Jerusalem Talmud, translation and commentary by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999–2015); commentary notes omitted, via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

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