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המוכר את הבית – לא מכר יציע, ואף על פי שהיא פתוחה לתוכו; ולא את החדר שלפנים הימנו; ולא את הגג – בזמן שיש לו מעקה גבוה עשרה טפחים. רבי יהודה אומר: אם יש לו צורת פתח, אף על פי שאינו גבוה עשרה טפחים – אינו מכור.
Mishnah: One who sells a house without specifying what is included in the sale has not sold the gallery, an extension built above or alongside the main building, and this is so even if the gallery is attached to the house and opens into it. Nor has he sold the room behind the house, even if it is accessible only from inside the house. He has also not sold the roof when it has a parapet 10 handbreadths high, as such a roof is considered a separate entity and is therefore not included in the sale of the house. R' Yehuda says: If the parapet has the form of a doorway, that is, if it consists of two upright posts with a beam crossing over them, then even if the parapet is not 10 handbreadths high, the roof is not sold together with the house, unless it is specifically included in the sale.
גמ׳ מאי ״יציע״? הכא תרגימו: אפתא. רב יוסף אמר: בדקא חלילה. למאן דאמר אפתא לא מזדבנא – כל שכן בדקא חלילה לא מזדבנא; למאן דאמר בדקא חלילה – אבל אפתא מזדבנא.
Talmud: What is a gallery? Here in Babylonia they interpreted this as referring to an attic [apta]. Rav Yosef said: It means a windowed structure [bidka ḥalila] attached to the main building. The Talmud notes that according to the one who says that an attic is not sold together with a house, all the more so is a windowed structure attached to the house not sold together with a house, as it is certainly considered a separate entity and not part of the main building. But according to the one who says that a gallery is a windowed structure attached to the house, it is only such a structure that is not included in the sale of the house, but an attic is sold together with a house.