Related%20passage for Eruvin 104:16

מתני׳ <big><strong>כיצד</strong></big> מעברין את הערים בית נכנס בית יוצא פגום נכנס פגום יוצא היו שם גדודיות גבוהות עשרה טפחים

DO NOT MEASURE EXACTLY<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But allow a margin of some fifteen cubits within the two thousand.');">²⁸</span> ON ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO ERR.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. people who might overlook the boundary mark and, in the absence of the margin, would trespass on forbidden ground. Aliter: The surveyors themselves err in their measurements, because what they reckon as two thousand cubits is really only one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five. This is arrived at as follows: Since Sabbath limits are measured by a rope that was fifty cubits in length (cf. infra 59b) a Sabbath limit would equal in length 2000/50 = 40 ropes. As the rope was held by two men, one at either end covering in his grip a portion of the rope to the extent of one hand breadth and half a finger, each rope length actually represented 50-2 handbreadths and one finger. In 40 rope lengths the deficit amounted to 2 X 40 = 80 handbreadths plus 40 X 1 = 40 fingers. Four fingers being equal to one handbreadth and six handbreadths to one cubit, the total deficit amounted to 80 + 40/4 = 90 handbreadths 90/60 = 15 cubits (Rashi) .');">²⁹</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>It was taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In explanation of the statement ON ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO ERR.');">³⁰</span> On account of those who err in their measures.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 5.');">³¹</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>HOW<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In computing Sabbath limits. ihrcgn');">³²</span> ARE THE SABBATH BOUNDARIES TO TOWNS EXTENDED?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' , the term is discussed infra.');">³³</span> IF<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In a town that had no wall around it.');">³⁴</span> ONE HOUSE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the confines of the town.');">³⁵</span> RECEDES<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the row of houses in which it is situated.');">³⁶</span> AND ANOTHER PROJECTS,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the row of houses in which it is situated.');">³⁶</span> IF<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where a town is surrounded by a wall.');">³⁷</span> ONE TURRET [OF THE WALL] RECEDES AND ANOTHER PROJECTS, IF THERE WERE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the confines of the town.');">³⁵</span> RUINS TEN HANDBREADTHS HIGH,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One of a lesser height is regarded as part of the ground and is not taken into consideration.');">³⁸</span>

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