Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING SPACE TO BE LEFT BETWEEN ONE’S PROPERTY AND ANOTHER’S, BE IT OF ONE OR TWO KINDS. UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS A TENANT MAY PLACE AN OVEN IN HIS DWELLING. UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES A SHOP IN A YARD MAY BE PREVENTED. CONCERNING THE SPACE TO BE LEFT BETWEEN A CITY AND PIGEON-COOPS, TREES, BARNS, CEMETERIES, AND TANNERIES. MISHNA /.: One must not dig a well near that of his neighbor, nor a channel, cave, aqueduct, or basin for washing, unless it be removed to a distance of at least three spans from that of his neighbor, and plastered with lime. Olive or poppy waste, dung, salt, lime, and flint-stones must also be removed to a distance of three spans, and must be covered with lime. To the same distance, seeds, ploughing, and urine must be removed from the wall; a handmill to a distance of three spans from the lower millstone, which is four from the upper millstone; and an oven three spans from the foundation, which is four spans from the upper rim. GEMARA: The Mishna begins with a well and ends with a wall ? Said Abayi, according to others, R. Jehudah: By the term
wall is meant the wall of the well. But then it could teach:
Unless he removes it from the well, and it would be self-evident that the meaning is from the wall of the well
? The Mishna comes to teach us by the way that a wall of a well must measure no less than three spans, in cases of selling and buying, as we have learned in the following Boraitha:
If one says, ‘ I am selling you the well with its walls,’ the walls must measure three spans. It was taught: If one comes to dig a well at the boundary of his neighbor’s vacant plot, has he to remove it to the distance mentioned in the Mishna, or not ? According to Abayi he has not, and according to Rabha he has. They …