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so that I can hide from you at that time and avoid coming under your gaze.
§ The Talmud has so far presented one version of the discussion of the Mishnah. A different version relates the discussion as follows: The rabbis initially assumed: What is the meaning of the term meḥitza mentioned in the Mishnah? A division, not a partition, as it is written: “And the division of
The Talmud objects to this conclusion: But why not say: What is the meaning of the term meḥitza mentioned in the Mishnah? It means a partition. This usage would be as we learned in a baraita: Consider the case where a partition of [meḥitzat] a vineyard which separates the vineyard from a field of g
The Talmud concludes stating the objection: And according to the understanding that the term meḥitza means a partition, one can infer: The reason that they build a wall is that they both wished to make a partition in their jointly owned courtyard. But if they did not both wish to do so, the court do
The Talmud rejects this argument: If so, the words: They build the wall, are imprecise, as the tanna should have said: They build it, since the wall and the partition are one and the same. The Talmud retorts: Rather, what is the meaning of the term meḥitza? A division. If it is so that the term m