Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 131:5
היא תחומין ואליבא דרבי עקיבא הבערה ואליבא דר' יוסי:
<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. This proves that there is a manner of desecrating the Sabbath for the deliberate committal of which there is no extinction, nor is a sin offering to be brought for its unwitting transgression. What is it? — The law of boundaries, according to R. Akiba,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to Biblical law, as deduced by the Rabbis, one was not to go more than 12 mil (a mil = 1,000 cubits) beyond the town boundaries on the Sabbath (the Rabbis reduced this to 2,000 cubits). R. Akiba maintained that if this law was violated the offender was liable neither to extinction nor to a sin offering. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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