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Mishnah: In the case of a spark that emerged from under the hammer of a blacksmith and started a fire, causing damage, the blacksmith is liable for the damage caused.
In the case of a camel that was laden with flax and was passing through the public domain, and its flax extended into a store and the flax caught fire from a lamp in the store belonging to the storekeeper, and as a result of the burning flax the camel set fire to the building together with all its c
Talmud: Ravina said in the name of Rava: Conclude from R' Yehuda’s statement that the mitzva is to place the Hanukkah lamp within a height of 10 handbreadths from the ground as, if it enters your mind to say that the mitzva can also be fulfilled by placing it above 10 handbreadths, why did R' Yehud
The rabbis say in response: No, there is no proof from here. Actually, I could say to you that one may place a Hanukkah lamp even above a height of 10 handbreadths, and as for what you said, that the owner of the camel can claim: You should have placed the lamp above the height of a camel and its
Further on the subject of the height of a Hanukkah lamp, Rav Kahana says that Rav Natan bar Minyumi taught in the name of R' Tanḥum: A Hanukkah lamp that is placed higher than 20 cubits from the ground is unfit to be used for the mitzva, since people do not generally look up to such a height, and th