1)

THE TYPE OF COURTYARD THAT OBLIGATES (Yerushalmi Ma'asros Perek 3 Halachah 3 Daf 16a)

îùðä åàéæä äéà çöø ùäéà çééáú áîòùøåú

(a)

(Mishnah): Which type of courtyard obligates completed produce in Ma'asros (as if they've been brought into the house)?

øáé éùîòàì àåîø çöø äöåøéú ùäëìéí ðùîøéí áúåëä.

1.

(R. Yishmael): (If it's like) a courtyard in Tzur, where the contents are protected by a guard at the entrance.

øáé ò÷éáä àåîø ëì ùàçã ôåúç åàçã ðåòì ôèåøä.

2.

(R. Akiva): If (for example, the courtyard contains two houses and) when one person opens, the other person (objects and) closes (and vice-versa, it is not considered protected and) it's exempt.

øáé ðçîéä àåîø ëì ùàéï àãí áåù îìàëåì áúåëä çééáú.

3.

(R. Nechemia): If a person would not be embarrassed to eat there, it is obligated.

øáé éåñé àåîø ëì ùðëðñ ìä åàéï àåîø ìå îä àúä îá÷ù áúåëä ôèåøä.

4.

(R. Yosi): If when a stranger enters and nobody asks him what he's doing there, it is exempt.

øáé éäåãä àåîø ùúé çöéøåú æå ìôðéí îæå äôðéîéú çééáú åäçéöåðä ôèåøä.

5.

(R. Yehuda): If there are two courtyards, one within the other, the inner one is obligated and the outer one is exempt.

äââåú ôèåøéï àó òì ôé ùäï ùì çöø çééáú.

(b)

Roofs are exempt, even though they belong to a courtyard that does obligate.

áéú ùòø åàëñãøä åîøôñú äøé àìå ëçöø àí çééáú çééáéï åàí ôèåøä ôèåøéï.

1.

A gatehouse, portico or balcony are like the courtyard and if it obligates, they obligate.

[ãó ëæ òîåã á (òåæ åäãø)] äöøéôéï åäáåøâðéï åäàìé÷èéåú ôèåøéï.

2.

A (cone-shaped) hut, a Borganin (field storage room) and a shed are exempt.

ñåëú âéðåñø àó òì ôé ùéù áä øéçéí åúøðâåìéï ôèåøéï.

3.

Huts of Ginosar, even if they contain millstones and roosters (which were usually kept in private courtyards), they are exempt.

ñåëú äéåöøéí äôðéîéú çééáú åäçéöåðä ôèåøä.

4.

A potter's hut - the inner room obligates and the outer room exempts.

øáé éåñé àåîø ëì ùàéðä ãéøú äçîä åãéøú äâùîéí ôèåøä.

5.

(R. Yosi): Anything which is not dwelled in both in the summer and winter is exempt.

ñåëú äçâ áçâ øáé éäåãä îçééá åçëîéí ôåèøéï:

6.

Sukkos used on the festival - R. Yehuda obligates and the Chachamim exempt.

âîøà [ãó èæ òîåã á] àéæå äéà çöø

(c)

(Gemara): (The Mishnah asked) Which type of courtyard?

úðé øáé éùîòàì ëì ùäùåîø éåùá òì ôúçä åîùîø.

(d)

(Baraisa)(R. Yishmael): Wherever a guard sits at the entrance to guard it.

øáé ùîåàì áø ðçîï áùí øáé éåðúï ëåìäåï îï äáéú ìîãå áéú èåáì ãáø úåøä (àîø)[ãëúéá] áéòøúé ä÷ãù îï äáéú.

(e)

(R. Shmuel bar Nachman citing R. Yochanan): All of these definitions are learned from the Torah obligating a house, as the pasuk states (Devarim 26:13), "I have removed the Holy portion from the house''. (The Chachamim decreed that anything that resembles a house also obligates.)

ùîòåï ÷åîé øáé éåçðï àîø ìåï äìëä ëãáøé ëåìäåï ìäçîéø.

(f)

Shimon said (to the students of the Beis Midrash) in front of R. Yochanan that the Halacha follows the stringent views of all of the Tannaim in the Mishnah.

åìîä ìà àîøéðï ìéä îùîéä ãìéúéä îéìúà ãøáé éåçðï ôìéâà òì îéìúà.

(g)

Why didn't Shimon explicitly say this in the name of R. Yochanan? So that they would not question him from the later statement of R. Yochanan.

úðé øáé ùîòåï áï àìòæø àåîø îùåí ø' ò÷éáä ëì ùàçã ôåúç åàçã ðåòì ôèåø áùðé ùåúôéï ìà áùðé ãéåøéï.

(h)

(Tosefta) (R. Shimon ben Elazar citing R. Akiva): (R. Akiva's statement in the Mishnah that if (for example, the courtyard contains two houses and) when one person opens, the other person (objects and) closes (and vice-versa, it is not considered protected and) it's exempt; it applies to two owners but not two tenants.

[ãó ëç òîåã à (òåæ åäãø)] îä áéï ùåúó îä áéï ãéåø ëùí ùäùåúó îîçä ëê äãéåø îîçä.

(i)

Question: What's the difference? Surely both owners and tenants are able to protest?

àîø øáé éåðä ááòì äáéú åãéåøå äéà îúðéúà áòì äáéú îîçä òì éãé ãéåø åàéï ãéåø îîçä òì éãé áòì äáéú.

(j)

Answer (R. Yona): It's discussing an owner that rented out one of the houses. The owner can protest the tenant, but not vice-versa. (Therefore, the courtyard is considered protected by the owner and it obligates in Maaser.)

òìéä ùîòåï ÷åîé øáé éåçðï äìëä ëøáé ùîòåï áï àìòæø ãøáé ò÷éáä

(k)

Concerning this Baraisa, Shimon said (to the students of the Beis Midrash) in front of R. Yochanan that the Halacha follows R. Shimon ben Elazar in the name of R. Akiva (that two if the courtyard has two owners, it is not considered protected and is exempt).

øáé éåðä àîø æòéøà åøáé àéîé úøéäåï áùí øáé éåçðï äìëä ëøáé ùîòåï áï àìòæø ãøáé ò÷éáä.

(l)

(R. Yona): Zeira and R. Imi both cited from R. Yochanan that the Halacha follows R. Shimon ben Elazar in the name of R. Akiva.

àîø øáé àéîé äåøé øáé éåçðï áàéìéï ãáé øáé àéîé äìëä ëøáé ùîòåï áï àìòæø ãøáé ò÷éáä.

(m)

(R. Imi): R. Yochanan ruled to the students of the House of R. Imi this way.

øáé áåï áø çééà áòé ÷åîé ø' æòéøà îä áà øáé éäåãä ìäåñéó òì ãáøé øáé ò÷éáä øáå

(n)

Question (R. Bun bar Chiya to R. Zeira): What's R. Yehuda adding to R. Akiva (in the Mishnah)?

àîø ìå ìà ëìåí.

(o)

Answer (R. Zeira to R. Bun bar Chiya): Nothing. (He just related it as he had heard it from R. Akiva.)

à''ø ìòæø ìââ îáåöø ìàåéø çöø äéà îúðéú'.

(p)

(R. Elazar): (When the Mishnah taught that roofs are exempt,) it's even when the roof is completely surrounded by the courtyard.

îëéåï ùäòáéøï ãøê çöø ìà ðèáìå.

(q)

Question: Why didn't it become Tevel when it was brought there through the courtyard?

úôúø àé ëøáé éåñé áé øáé éåãä àé ëøáé áùäéä ãòúå ìòùåúï îå÷öä åðîìê ùìà ìòùåúï.

(r)

Answer: The Mishnah could follow R. Yosi bei R. Yehuda (at the beginning of this Perek, that since his intent when he took it through the courtyard was to eat it on the roof, it didn't become Tevel). And even if it follows Rebbi (there), it's different here as he originally planned to taking it to his roof to dry, so it wasn't yet complete when he took it through his courtyard.

àîø øáé àáéï åäåà ùéäà áââ àøáò òì àøáò îä äáéú àéðå èåáì òã ùéäà áå àøáò òì àøáò àó äââ àéðå ôåèø òã ùéäà áå àøáò òì àøáò.

(s)

(R. Avin): Roofs are exempt only when they measure at least 4 by 4 Amos. Just as a house only causes Tevel when it's at least 4 by 4, so too a roof only exempts from that size.

ãúðé áéú ùàéï áå àøáò àîåú òì àøáò àîåú ôèåø îï äîæåæä åîï äîò÷ä åîï äòéøåá åàéðå èåáì ìîòùøåú åàéï òåùéï àåúå çéáåø ìòéø åäðåãø îï äáéú îåúø ìéùá áå [ãó ëç òîåã á (òåæ åäãø)] åàéï ðåúðéí ìå àøáò àîåú ìôðé ôúçå åàéï öîéú áéåáì åàéðå îèîà áðâòéí åàéï äáòìéí çåæøéï òìéå îòåøëé îìçîä.

1.

Support (Baraisa): A house that does not measure 4 by 4 Amos is exempt from Mezuzah, from building a fence around its roof, from contributing food towards an Eiruv and from obligating Ma'asros. It cannot be used to extend the limits of a city to join it with another city; one who vows against benefitting from houses may dwell in it; it does not receive an area of 4 Amos in front of it in a courtyard; if it was sold, the seller doesn't lose his right to redeem it after a year and if he didn't redeem it, it returns to him in Yovel; and the owner would not return from the battlefront if he hadn't yet inaugurated it.

îäå ùéèáìå ìáòì äáåøâðéï

(t)

(The Mishnah taught that a Borganin (a field storage room) is exempt from Ma'asros.) Does this even apply to its owner?

îï îä ãúðé áéú ñôø åáéú úìîåã èåáìéï ìñôø (åìà) ìîùðä àáì ìà ìàçøéí äãà àîøä (ùàéï)[ùäï] èåáìéï ìáòì äáåøâðéï.

(u)

Answer (Baraisa): 'A house used to teach children Tanach, Mishnah or Talmud obligates the teacher, but not others that transfer their fruit there.' This shows that a Borganin obligates the owner but not others.

øáé àåîø àøáò àîåú àó òì ôé ùàéï ùí àøáò ãôðåú.

(v)

Rebbi says that a 4 by 4 Amah house obligates in Ma'asros even if it doesn't have 4 walls.

ø''ù àåîø àøáò ãôðåú àó òì ôé ùàéï ùí àøáò àîåú.

(w)

R. Shimon says it when the house has 4 walls, even without being 4 by 4 Amos.

øáé (éäåãä)[éåñé] àåîø àøáò àîåú åàøáò ãôðåú

(x)

R.Yosi says that it must be 4 by 4 Amos and have 4 walls.

åëï äéä øáé éåãä îçééá áîæåæä.

(y)

R. Yehuda says the same for the obligation of Mezuzah (as he did in our Mishnah about Maaser, that Sukkos used on the festival obligate).

îñúáøà øáé éåãä éåãé ìàéìéï øáðéï àéìéï øáðéï ìà éåãåï ìøáé éåãä àó òì ôé ùéù ùí àøáò àîåú åàøáò ãôðåú ùäåà ôèåø îï äîæåæä åàéðå èåáì ìîòùøåú:

(z)

It's logical to say that R. Yehuda agrees with Rabbanan (that a house must be 4 by 4 and have 4 walls to obligate) but not vice-versa; as Rabbanan would not say that a Sukkos on the festival obligates in Mezuzah and Maaser.