Take Ten for Talmud
1641BabaBasra7- Is the guardhouse good or bad
Shalom Alaykum on behalf of TEACH 613 we welcome you to take time for Talmud. Baba Bastra-Dav-Zayin, Baba Bastra 7b, pagination 14, Mishnah towards the middle of the page and with this Mishnah we begin a significant section in the Masechta dealing with the laws of Siddhaka and we'll see how we get there. In the Mishnah sets, Kofino-so we obligate, we force the residents, live-nose based Shahar to build a certain type of room in front of the courtyard in which the guard would be able to sit and generally it was situated in such a way that it protected the residents of the Khatsar of the courtyard from the gaze of the people in Rishis Arabim because the doorway was not built in such a way that you could see straight through but rather tapered so that you don't see straight through so it had a specific function, vidalus and they have to pay for a door, la Khatsar for the courtyard. (In Hebrew) Not every Khatsar deserves such a building, this little building and it would depend. The Mishnah continues, Kofino-so live-nose live-nose-so here, Khoma-o-dul-a-sayim uvriach, they would obligate the residents of a city to build a wall, to build doors and to install a bolt, Rabishim-a-migam-li-al-omir, Rabishim-a-migam-li-al-says, Lok-a-la-ra-ha-ya-ya-re-riz-ru-ya-sul-homa, here also it depends on the city, not every city is appropriate to enforce that they have to build the wall with the door, with the bolt. The Mishnah continues, Kama-yay-bo-ya-ya-ya-can-shay-ha-ya-ya, how long do you have to be in a city, and you should be classified as a member of the city and be taxed as such, you'd base Khodesh 12 months. Now we'll do the next phrase, and then we'll come back and we'll appreciate the 12-month concept, Khonobha-based-dira, if you acquired a home, Harayu-can-shay-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya, you considered a resident of the city right away, and going back to the 12-month concept, that means that this was a person who was hanging out in the city for 12 months, but not that he bought a home. And even so, once a person is around for 12 months he's considered part of the city. These types of concepts are applied as well to the concept of Sadakah, that there's a certain amount of time that a person is in the city, and he's considered a resident of the city, both on the topic of giving Sadakah, that he could be taxed, and on the topic of taking Sadakah, that he's given a more lengthy allowance rather than just sustenance for the day. And once a person buys a home in the city, he's considered a member of the city, and it's not approached the same way that we're waiting for the clock to take. How many days have you been in town? Because once he buys a house, he's part of the city. And there's likewise a discussion regarding the laws of Mazuzah, a very creative question. We have a concept of a rental, of a home, that there's an allotment of 30 days before there's an obligation to put up a Mazuzah. What would happen if a person signs a contract, a rental contract, which signs that he's going to be there for 12 months? So this is no longer a day by day thing, and it reached 30 days, and until 30 days he spotted her. He signed that he's going to be there for 12 months, and perhaps that statement of intent and that binding nature of the contract might actually indicate that he should be putting up the Mazuzah earlier. Now the Yamara branches off to the topic of sudaka with the following words, "Lememra, are you telling me, based on this Mishnah, that this little room house that's built in front of the Khatsar to protect the people of the courtyard, that that's a good thing, and we're going to actually enforce payment that it should happen. For a Hukasidah, there was a story of a certain saintly person, a righteous person, daviragulillio davirnishtoy bade, yillio, I never used to visit him regularly of a base shar, and this person made a base shar by his courtyard. Vasulamishtoy bade, an yillio stopped coming to him, and as the mafarsham explained, the problem is that a poor person who comes knocks on the door asking for entrance to plead his case for a donation, the base shar will interfere with the poor man's attempts to gain attention from the homeowner. Because this base shar is situated by the Khatsar, and he knocks on the base shar door, and if the guard isn't there to alert the homeowner, so then he just knocks on the door, and no one hears him, because this door is in front of the doorway of the Khatsar, and he's so far out that no one can hear him. And the Gomorrah answers, you're right, this base shar has to be built with great sensitivity. Lokasha, it's not a question. Homigavo'i, this is when the base shar is built inside. Homi yivroy, and this is when the base shar is built outside. If it's built on the inside, it's bad, because the door of the Khatsar, of course, is going to remain locked. And then in addition to the door of the Khatsar, there's a base shar with its own building, and when he knocks on the door of the Khatsar, which is the closest he's able to come, his knocking will not be heard inside. However, if you build the base shar on the outside, and it does not have a locked door, a little bit like the overhangs that we have in our culture, the poor person comes in to this building, it's like our overhang. He's kind of in, but he's able to get in, and he's knocking on the Khatsar door, just like he did before. Apparently, this cuss had built this base shar in the wrong way, and just as the honey, the poor person, was not able to gain access. Elio said, "I'm not coming to him either, but if the base shar is built correctly, that's the case of our Mishnah, where we indeed enforce the base shar. It's a degree of protection and a concern of Hezek, Ríya, that people should not be able to see in." Yeshikoua, thank you for joining.