רבי עקיבא היינו תנא קמא
Is not R'Akiba [laying down] the same ruling as the first Tanna?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Rabbis, who (supra 18a ab init.) contended that it is permissible to move objects in a garden and the like (which were not enclosed for dwelling purposes) if the area is not more than two beth se'ah i.e., about seventy and two-thirds cubits square (Rashi) .');"><sup>1</sup></span> The difference between them is a small area.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By which area of two beth se'ah exceeds that of seventy and two-thirds cubits square (cf. infra n. 8) . According to the first Tanna the area may be as large as two beth se'ah while according to R. Akiba it must not exceed that of 70 2/3 cubits square.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And since we explained the shekel-coins, it is fitting that we explain how much is a chomer: You should know that the chomer is a measure that is [also] called a kor. And a kor is two letech, and a letech is fifteen seah. It comes out that a chomer is thirty seah, which is ten eipah - as an eipah is three seah. It is a well-known thing and we also already knew it from our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, (Eruvin 23b) that a place that has fifty ells by fifty ells is a beit seah - meaning that it is [what contains what grows from] a seah of barley - and that is two thousand five hundred [square ells] by arithmetic (multiplication). It comes out that a place that is fitting for the seed of a chomer of barley - which is thirty seah - is seventy-five thousand ells by arithmetic.
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