Arachin 32a

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Arakhin 32a

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Topic

Forced payment and תקנת הלל, then which properties and which cities count as בתי ערי חומה.

Overview

The amud opens by finishing a debate about תקנת הלל. A seller of a house in a walled city may buy it back within a year, and הלל allowed him to pay even when the buyer hid from him. In two opposite versions, רבא learns from this whether money forced on someone counts as giving, for a גט given on condition of two hundred זוז. In each version, רב פפא pushes back on the proof. A new משנה then rules that everything inside a city wall is treated like בתי ערי חומה except fields, and the גמרא brings the פסוק sources for רבי יהודה and רבי מאיר. It then narrows their dispute to a quarry and a sand bed. רבי יוחנן shows that the argument over a house built into the wall comes from one פסוק about רחב. A second משנה defines a walled city: a real wall all around since the days of יהושע בן נון, and at least three courtyards of two houses each. The גמרא brings ברייתות that exclude roof-walls and טבריה, and that keep walled status for a city whose wall is gone. The amud ends by asking what a ברייתא means when it sorts the walled cities by region, and the answer comes on the next amud.

Opening lines

The steps (21)

1. Proofרבא's inference: forced giving normally does not count
2. RejectionMaybe הלל's ordinance was only needed when the buyer is absent
3. StatementSecond version: רבא rules that forced payment does count
4. Statementרבא's reason: הלל's ordinance was only for when the buyer is absent
5. RejectionMaybe consent is always needed, and הלל only fixed the real problem
6. StatementEverything inside the wall counts, except fields
7. StatementA house built into the city wall
8. Statementרבי יהודה's reading of the verse
9. Statementרבי מאיר includes even fields
10. ChallengeWhat does 'house' exclude for רבי מאיר?
11. ResolutionThe real dispute is a quarry and a sand bed
12. ProofA ברייתא supports the answer
13. StatementQuoting the משנה: a house built into the wall
14. StatementBoth sides learn from the same verse
15. StatementHow each side reads the verse
16. Statementמשנה: cities that do not count as walled
17. Statementמשנה: what a real walled city is, with examples
18. Statementברייתא: no roof-walls, and טבריה is excluded
19. StatementA wall that existed in the past still counts
20. StatementA ברייתא tells us where the walled cities from the משנה are located
21. QuestionWhat is the ברייתא trying to say?