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Rather, suggest that Shmuel meant that there is no public domain above 10 handbreadths. It is a Mishnah, and why would he repeat an explicit Mishnah? As we learned in a Mishnah: With regard to one who throws an object 4 cubits in the public domain, and the object came to rest on a wall standing in
Rather, it must be that Shmuel’s statement was referring to a karmelit; there is no karmelit above 10 handbreadths. And, if so, the rabbis were lenient with regard to a karmelit and applied some leniencies of the private domain and some leniencies of the public domain. The Talmud elaborates: Some
To the matter itself: It was mentioned above that Rav Giddel said that Rav Ḥiyya bar Yosef said that Rav said: A house that does not have inside it walls that are 10 handbreadths high, and with its roofing it reaches a height of 10 handbreadths above the ground; on its roof, one may carry on all of
With regard to this halakha, Abaye said: And if he dug out an area of 4 by 4 handbreadths in the floor of the house and in the place where the digging took place, its height to the ceiling reaches 10 handbreadths, the house becomes a private domain, and it is permitted to carry in the entire house.
Rava said to Abaye: According to you, who said that the holes of the public domain are considered like the public domain, in what way is it different from this halakha? As when Rav Dimi came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he said that R' Yoḥanan said: This addition of karmelit to the Tosefta was o