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It was Aivu who said this statement in the name of Reish Lakish and not R' Abbahu, and he said 4 halakhot, not 3, with regard to the measure of 4 mil, and the 4th one of them is the halakha mentioned in the Mishnah: Skins that one spread on the ground and trod upon for the period required for tannin
R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, says: With regard to prayer and washing one’s hands, the rabbis taught that one must travel 4 mil to find a synagogue or water only if the synagogue or the water is ahead of him, in the direction that he is traveling. But if it is behind him, he need not return even one
§The Mishnah states that the skin of a human corpse is impure like its flesh. A baraita states in the Tosefta (8:16): In the case of a legion traveling for warfare from place to place, and one member of the legion enters a house, the house is impure, as there is no legion that does not have several
Mishnah: The halakhic status of the hide of an animal after it was flayed is no longer like its flesh in terms of becoming impure and imparting impurity. Nevertheless, in the case of one who flays either a domesticated animal or an undomesticated animal; a ritually pure animal that was slaughtered
These circumstances are: If he is flaying the animal for the purpose of using the hide as a carpet, a tablecloth, or to drape over a couch, in which case he would cut the hide along the length of the animal from head to tail and then remove the hide from both sides, its halakhic status remains that