Responsa for Bava Batra 40:4
(ואמר) רב בכל עושין מחיצה חוץ ממלח ורבב ושמואל אמר אפילו מלח אמר רב פפא ולא פליגי הא במלח סדומית הא במלח איסתרוקנית
Samuel said: Even with salt. R. papa said: There is no conflict between them [Rab and Samuel] — One speaks of salt of Sodom and the other of salt of Istria.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A town in Pontus. The salt of Sodom was thick and hard. [v. Krauss op. cit. I. 499ff.] ');"><sup>6</sup></span> Seeing. however, that Rabbah has said that a man may set up two piles of salt and place a beam over them [to make an alley-way],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which things may be carried on Sabbath. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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