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והא כי אתא רבי אבין אמר רבי יוחנן: אחד אילן הנוטה לתוך שדה חבירו, ואחד אילן הסמוך למצר – מביא וקורא, שעל מנת כן הנחיל יהושע לישראל את הארץ!
The Talmud further questions the number of Joshua’s stipulations: But when R' Avin came from Eretz Yisrael he said that R' Yoḥanan says: With regard to both a tree that leans into the field of another and a tree that is close to a boundary with another field, the owner of the tree brings the first fruits of the tree and recites the accompanying declaration, as described in Deuteronomy 26:5–10, as it was on this condition that Joshua apportioned Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish people. This is an additional stipulation by Joshua, which means that there are more than 10.
אלא מאן תנא עשרה תנאין שהתנה יהושע – רבי יהושע בן לוי הוא. רב גביהה מבי כתיל מתני לה בהדיא: רבי תנחום ורבי ברייס אמרי משום זקן אחד, ומנו – רבי יהושע בן לוי; עשרה תנאין התנה יהושע.
The Talmud answers: Rather, who is the one who taught the baraita that deals with the 10 conditions that Joshua stipulated? It is R' Yehoshua ben Levi, an amora. Therefore, R' Yoḥanan, another amora, can disagree with it. Rav Geviha from Bei Katil teaches this explicitly in his version of the baraita: R' Tanḥum and R' Berayes say in the name of a certain elder, and who is that elder? It is R' Yehoshua ben Levi: Joshua stipulated 10 conditions.
עשרה תקנות תיקן עזרא: שקורין במנחה בשבת; וקורין בשני ובחמישי; ודנין בשני ובחמישי; ומכבסים בחמישי בשבת; ואוכלין שום בערב שבת; ושתהא אשה משכמת ואופה; ושתהא אשה חוגרת בסינר; ושתהא אשה חופפת וטובלת; ושיהו רוכלין מחזירין בעיירות; ותיקן טבילה לבעלי קריין.
§ A baraita states that Ezra the Scribe instituted 10 ordinances: He instituted that communities read the Torah on Shabbat in the afternoon; and they also read the Torah on every Monday and Thursday; and the courts convene and judge every Monday and Thursday; and one does laundry on Thursday; and one eats garlic on Friday. And Ezra further instituted that a woman should rise early and bake bread on those days when she wants to bake; and that a woman should don a breechcloth; and that a woman should first comb her hair and only then immerse in a mikveh after being ritually impure; and that peddlers of cosmetics and perfumes should travel around through all the towns. And Ezra further instituted the requirement of immersion for those who experienced a seminal emission.