{"id":8050,"date":"2016-01-30T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:37:35","slug":"01-30-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/01-30-07\/","title":{"rendered":"07. Cases In Which We Do Not Square a City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen, by squaring the city, we add space in the corners to the <em>te\u0125um<\/em>. However, the Sages pointed out that sometimes we cannot draw straight lines to square the whole city, because the resulting square would include uninhabited areas that are too large to be considered subsumed by the city. Examples of this would be cities that are shaped like a bow or like an L. The operative principle is that if there are 4,000 <em>amot<\/em> between the two ends of the shape, that part of the city cannot be squared.<\/p>\n<p>An L-shaped city:<\/p>\n<p>A bow-shaped city:<sup><a id=\"_ze05ftnref30_8\" class=\"aup1\" href=\"#_ze05ftn30_8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div><a id=\"_ze05ftn30_8\" href=\"#_ze05ftnref30_8\">[8]<\/a>. Rambam and SA 388:4 state, in disagreement with this diagram, that the 2,000 <em>amot<\/em> are measured from the edges of the inhabited homes. The resulting <em>te\u0125um<\/em> follows the curve of the bow. However, the diagram follows the opinion of <em>Tosafot<\/em> (55b, s.v. \u201cve-im lav\u201d), Rosh, most Rishonim, and Rema that for the inside of the bow, where the arc narrows to less than 4,000 <em>amot<\/em>, we draw a \u201cbowstring\u201d from one end of the arc to the other and measure the <em>te\u0125um<\/em> as 2,000 <em>amot<\/em> from that straight line (see diagram). The <em>halakha<\/em> follows the majority of <em>poskim<\/em>, especially since the laws of <em>te\u0125umin<\/em> are rabbinic, so the <em>halakha<\/em> follows the lenient position. Although <em>Tur<\/em> has an even more lenient opinion, the rest of the <em>poskim<\/em> disagree, as detailed in BHL s.v. \u201cve-yesh omrim.\u201d Uncertainty still remains regarding how to measure the <em>te\u0125um<\/em> for the rest of the bow, where the arc widens to 4,000 <em>amot <\/em>and greater. It would seem that we can follow the position of Rambam and SA that the <em>te\u0125um<\/em> follows the curve, as displayed in the diagram. \u0124azon Ish maintains this as well (O\u0124 110:10). See <em>Har\u0125avot<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen, by squaring the city, we add space in the corners to the te\u0125um. 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