משום חשד אשתו.
He does so due to a suspicion that the owner of the cistern might enter the house at a time when the owner of the house is not present, and thereby be secluded together in the house with the homeowner’s wife.
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משום חשד אשתו.
He does so due to a suspicion that the owner of the cistern might enter the house at a time when the owner of the house is not present, and thereby be secluded together in the house with the homeowner’s wife.
מתני׳ מי שיש לו גינה לפנים מגינתו של חברו – נכנס בשעה שדרך בני אדם נכנסים, ויוצא בשעה שדרך בני אדם יוצאין; ואינו מכניס לתוכה תגרין; ולא יכנס מתוכה לתוך שדה אחרת; והחיצון זורע את הדרך.
Mishnah: One who has ownership of a garden located beyond the garden of another, and also has access rights to it, may enter his garden only at a time when it is usual for people to enter, and may leave only at a time when it is usual for people to leave. Furthermore, he may not bring merchants into his garden, and he may not enter the garden solely in order to use it as a passageway, to enter from it into another field. And the owner of the outer garden may sow the path leading to the inner garden.
נתנו לו דרך מן הצד מדעת שניהן – נכנס בשעה שהוא רוצה, ויוצא בשעה שרוצה; ומכניס לתוכה תגרין. ולא יכנס מתוכה לתוך שדה אחרת. זה וזה אינן רשאים לזורעה.
If the court gave him an access path from the side of the outer garden, with the agreement of both of them, he may enter at any time he wants, and leave at any time he wants, and may bring merchants into the inner garden. But he may still not enter the garden solely in order to enter from it into another field. In such a case, neither this one, the owner of the inner garden, nor that one, the owner of the outer garden, is permitted to plant that side path.
גמ׳ אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל: ״אמה בית השלחין אני מוכר לך״ – נותן לו שתי אמות לתוכה, ואמה מכאן ואמה מכאן לאגפיה. ״אמה בית הקילון אני מוכר לך״ – נותן לו אמה אחת לתוכה, וחצי אמה מכאן וחצי אמה מכאן לאגפיה.
Talmud: Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: If a field owner says to another: I am selling you from my land a water channel fit for bringing water to an irrigated field, he is required to give him land two cubits wide for the inside of the channel, and 1 cubit on this side and 1 cubit on that side for its banks. If he said to him: I am selling you a shadoof [kilon] channel, he is required to give him land 1 cubit wide for the inside of the channel and ½ cubit on this side and ½ cubit on that side for its banks.
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