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The dispute between R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov and the Rabbis is with regard to a courtyard where there is sufficient area in the courtyard for it to be divided into 4 square cubits for each partner, so each can be said to have a real portion that can be forbidden to the other. But if there is not suffi
Rav Yosef said to Rabba: A synagogue belongs to the entire public and is therefore considered like a courtyard in which there is not sufficient area in it to be divided, and we learned in a Mishnah later in the chapter (48a) that with regard to two people who vow not to derive benefit from each othe
Rather, Rav Yosef said: Ze’eiri must have said: The dispute holds where there is not sufficient area in the courtyard for it to be divided, but if there is sufficient area in it for it to be divided, everyone agrees that it is forbidden, since if either enters it he may be entering the other’s por
Rav Huna said: The halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov. And so too, R' Elazar said: The halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov.
§ The Mishnah teaches: With regard to one prohibited by a vow from deriving benefit from another and he has a bathhouse or an olive press in the city that is leased out and available for public use, the forbidden party may use it only if the owner has forfeited his own right to profits from usage. T