{"id":8051,"date":"2016-01-30T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:37:36","slug":"01-30-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/01-30-08\/","title":{"rendered":"08. Connecting Settled Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
As long as the houses in a city are contiguous, meaning that they are not farther away from one another than the size of a karpif<\/em> (a large courtyard, approximately 32 m long), they are considered part of one area for the purpose of assessing the te\u0125um<\/em>. If they are separated from one another by more space than that, they are not considered part of one area, and each house\u2019s te\u0125um Shabbat<\/em> is then calculated separately.[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n If the houses in a city are contiguous, then even if one house is out of alignment, as long as it is not more than 32 m from the next house, the te\u0125um<\/em>\u2019s square or rectangle expands to include the unaligned house. If there are additional houses after this one, the te\u0125um<\/em> expands to include them as well; this can continue even if it means that the te\u0125um<\/em> extends outside the city proper for a distance that would take days to walk. As long as each house is not separated from the next by more than 32 m, the te\u0125um <\/em>extends to include them. However, if a house is more than 32 m away, it is not included within the rectangle.<\/p>\n If the distance between two adjacent neighborhoods is greater than the size of two large courtyards (i.e., over 64 m), then each neighborhood is considered a town in its own right. We square each on its own, and then 2,000 amot<\/em> are measured in each direction from that square. In contrast, if the distance separating the two neighborhoods is 64 m or less, they are considered one area and we square them together. There must be at least fifty residents living in an area for a group of houses to be defined as a neighborhood (Eruvin<\/em> 60a). Even if there are fewer than fifty people, as long as the area contains three courtyards, each of which joins two homes together, or six homes, each of which has a courtyard, the area is still considered a neighborhood (MB 398:38; \u0124azon Ish<\/em> O\u0124 110:19).<\/p>\n If an area is enclosed by a wall or an eruv<\/em>, all its homes and neighborhoods are considered one area. This is true even when the wall or eruv<\/em> is farther than a karpif<\/em>\u2019s length from the last house, and even if there is a large distance between the homes and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n