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the bees will not find it; if it is referring to a leaf, it will grow back.
§ The Mishnah teaches: Nor may one set up a launderer’s pond near his neighbor’s wall unless he distances it 3 handbreadths from the wall. Rav Naḥman says that Rabba bar Avuh says: They taught this only with regard to a soaking pond, in which soiled clothes are left to soak for several days. But in
And some raise this as a contradiction, and present the Mishnah and baraita as apparently conflicting sources. We learned in the Mishnah that a launderer’s pond must be kept 3 handbreadths from his neighbor’s property. But isn’t it taught in a baraita that 4 cubits are required? Rav Naḥman says tha
§ The Mishnah teaches that one who digs a pit must distance it 3 handbreadths from another’s property and plaster it with lime. A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: What is the precise wording of the Mishnah? Did we learn: And plasters with lime, meaning that the walls must be plastered with lim
The Talmud answers: It is obvious that we learned: And plasters with lime, as, if it enters your mind that we learned: Or plasters with lime, which is the same as what is stated in the clause of the Mishnah discussing olive refuse, if so, let the tanna combine them and teach them together. If the s