Commentary for Berakhot 123:21
תניא נמי הכי בן עזאי אומר השכם וצא הערב וצא כדי שלא תתרחק משמש ושב ואל תשב ותמשמש שכל היושב וממשמש אפי' עושין כשפים באספמיא באין עליו
There is a teaching to the same effect : Ben 'Azzai says : Rise early and go out, and act likewise after dusk so that thou needest not go a distance ; feel the need and then sit down, but do not sit down and then [wait to] feel the need, for whoever does so, even should they practise sorcery in Aspamia it will befall him.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
A place-name used in the Talmud to express extreme distance. It denotes several different places ; cf. Krauss, pp. 90 f.
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