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that he built the upper story to protect the garden [tarbitza], not to access the roofs.
Rami bar Ḥama raised a dilemma: According to Rav, who holds that one may carry only within 4 cubits on each roof, if he carries an object two cubits on a roof and another two cubits on a pillar 10 handbreadths high and 4 handbreadths wide adjacent to the roof, what is the halakha? Rabba said: With
The Talmud explains that this was not in fact the dilemma, and Rami bar Ḥama, due to his keen mind, did not analyze the dilemma carefully and was imprecise in its formulation. Rather, this is the dilemma he is raising: If one carries an object two cubits on the roof of a house, and another two cubi
The Talmud elaborates on Rami bar Ḥama’s dilemma: Do we say that since neither this roof is fit for residence, nor is this portico roof fit for residence, it is regarded as one domain, and therefore carrying between them is permitted? Or perhaps since carrying from a roof to another roof is prohibi
Rav Beivai bar Abaye raised a similar dilemma: If one carries two cubits on the roof of a house and another two cubits on the roof of a ruin belonging to someone else, one side of which was completely open to a public domain, what is the halakha?