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and a public road that is at least 16 cubits wide; and a private road that is 4 cubits wide; and a public trail; and a permanent private trail that is used whether in the summer or in the winter, i.e., winter. Rav Asi and Ravin disagree with regard to whether R' Yoḥanan held that a boundary or sea
The Talmud further clarifies: What is the halakha of ritual impurity that is affected by determining whether an area is one or two fields? As we learned in a Mishnah (Teharot 6:5): With regard to one who enters into a valley during the winter, i.e., winter, when people generally do not enter this a
R' Eliezer deems him pure, as R' Eliezer would say: Concerning uncertainty with regard to entry, i.e., it is uncertain whether he entered the area where the ritual impurity is located, he is ritually pure. But if he certainly entered the area where the ritual impurity is located and the uncertain
The Talmud infers, though, that even Ravin holds that a boundary or sea squill serves as a barrier only with regard to pe’a and ritual impurity, but with regard to the halakhot of Shabbat, they do not serve as a barrier between fields.
Rava says: They serve as a barrier between fields even with regard to the matter of Shabbat, as it is taught in a baraita: With regard to one who carried out half of a dried fig from a private domain into the public domain and placed it there, and then returned and carried out another half of a dri