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bloodletters would come and sit beneath them and perform their work there, and crows would come, eat the blood, and fly up to the palm trees and damage the dates. Rav Yosef said to the bloodletters: Remove these crowing birds from here, i.e., leave in order to avoid further damage. Abaye said to hi
Abaye said to Rav Yosef: But they have established an acquired privilege to use that particular spot for their work. Rav Yosef replied: Doesn’t Rav Naḥman say that Rabba bar Avuh says: There is no acquired privilege of use in cases of damage, i.e., an established situation may not be allowed to con
Mishnah: One must distance a dovecote 50 cubits from the city to prevent doves from eating seeds in the town. And a person should not establish a dovecote within his own property unless he has 50 cubits in each direction between the dovecote and the edge of his property. R' Yehuda says that one mus
Talmud: The Talmud asks: Must one distance a dovecote only 50 cubits from the city and no more? Is that as far as one can expect a dove to fly? And the Talmud raises a contradiction from a Mishnah (Bava Kamma 79b): One may spread out traps [neshavin] for doves only if this was performed at a dista
Abaye said: Doves do fly great distances, which is why one must avoid catching others’ birds by keeping traps 30 ris away from settled areas. But as they eat along their way, their stomachs are filled after a distance of 50 cubits, at which point they will do no more damage to seeds. The Talmud a