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Mishnah: One may bring wood chopped from a tree the previous day from an unfenced field, but only from that which has been gathered into a pile before the Festival for the purpose of using it for kindling. However, scattered wood is muktze and may not be handled. And if one brings wood from a karp
Talmud: Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: One may not bring wood except from the wood that was gathered in a karpef. The Talmud challenges: But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah: And from a karpef, even from scattered wood? The Talmud answers: The Mishnah follows an individual opinion.
One may not rely on it, as is clear from a different source that the majority view is otherwise, as it is taught in a baraita that R' Shimon ben Elazar said: Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel did not disagree with regard to wood scattered in fields that one may not bring it on a Festival to one’s house f
Rava said: With regard to reed leaves and vine leaves, although they are gathered together and placed in the same spot, since if a wind comes it will scatter them, they are already considered scattered and are therefore prohibited. Given that they are likely to be scattered in the wind, one does
The Mishnah discussed the question: What is a karpef? R' Yehuda states that it is any enclosure that is near a city, while in R' Yosei’s opinion it is any fenced place into which one can enter only with a key, provided that it is within the Shabbat limit of a city. A dilemma was raised before the r