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atop a chest is like a vessel within a vessel. On a similar note, R' Yehoshua ben Levi said: One who wishes to engage in marital sex in a room in which there is a Torah scroll, must erect a partition 10 handbreadths high. The Talmud relates: Mar Zutra happened to come to the house of Rav Ashi and
We learned in the Mishnah: And, how far must one distance himself from urine and from feces in order to recite Shema? 4 cubits. Rava said that Rav Seḥora said that Rav Huna said: They only taught that it is sufficient to distance oneself 4 cubits when the feces are behind him, but if they are before
The Talmud challenges this: Is that so? Didn’t Rafram bar Pappa say that Rav Ḥisda said: One may stand opposite a latrine and pray. The Talmud resolves this contradiction: With what are we dealing here? With a latrine that has no feces, and therefore there is no need to distance himself to that ex
The Talmud asks again: Is that so? Didn’t Rav Yosef bar Ḥanina say: The latrine to which the rabbis referred in all of the halakhot of distancing oneself was even one in which there were no feces, and the bathhouse to which the rabbis referred in all of the halakhot of uttering sacred matters, was e
The Talmud asks: Wasn’t this already raised as a dilemma by Ravina: One who designated the structure for use as a latrine, what is its legal status? Is designation effective or is designation not effective? The Talmud replies: When Ravina raised the dilemma, it was whether or not one may stand and