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in a large building with many residences, the renter may make use of the building’s projections and of the cavities in its external walls up to a distance of 4 cubits from his room, and he may make use of the thickness of the wall in a place where it is customary to do so. But as for making use of t
Apropos the use of a wall between neighbors, Ravina says: If one’s beam supporting a covering for shade was resting on his neighbor’s wall for up to 30 days, there is no acquired privilege for him to continue using it, since the neighbor can claim that he had assumed that the beam was there only te
§ Abaye says: If there were two houses on two sides of a public domain, this one, the owner of one of the houses, must build a fence for half his roof, and that one, the owner of the other house, must build a fence for half his roof. They must position the fences so that one fence is not opposite
The Talmud asks: Why discuss specifically the case of two houses on opposite sides of a public domain, considering that the same halakha should apply even if the two houses are separated by a private domain? The Talmud answers: It was necessary for Abaye to mention a public domain, lest you say th
To counter this, Abaye teaches us that this is not so, because the second homeowner can say to the first in response: The public can see me only during the day, when pedestrians pass by, but they cannot see me at night. You, by contrast, can see me both during the day and at night. Alternatively,