Soncino English Talmud
Bava Batra
Daf 61a
MISHNAH. IF A MAN SELLS A HOUSE [WITHOUT FURTHER SPECIFICATION], THE YAZIA' IS NOT INCLUDED WITH IT, EVEN THOUGH IT OPENS INTO THE HOUSE, NOR IS AN INSIDE ROOM [WHICH IS ENTERED FROM IT]. NOR THE ROOF, SO LONG AS IT HAS A PARAPET TEN HAND BREADTHS HIGH. R. JUDAH SAYS THAT IF IT HAS [ANYTHING OF] THE SHAPE OF A DOOR, EVEN THOUGH THE PARAPET IS NOT TEN HANDBREADTHS HIGH IT IS NOT SOLO [WITH THE HOUSE]. GEMARA. What is meant by the word yazia'? — Here it was translated as apsa. R. Joseph said: It means a verandah with a semiopen side. For one who holds that a closed-in verandah is not sold [with the room]. there is no question that an open one is not. But the one who says [that the verandah excluded here is] the open one would nevertheless include the closed-in one. R. Joseph learned: Three names are found for this structure in the Scriptures — yazia', zela', ta. Yazia, as it is written, The nethermost storey [yazia'] was five cubits broad; zela', as it is written, And the side chambers [zela'oth] were in three stories, one over another and thirty in order; ta, as it is written, And every lodge [ta] was one reed long and one reed broad, and the space between the lodges was five cubits. Or if you like I can derive it [the fact that a verandah is called ta] from here: 'The wall of the Sanctuary was six cubits and the ta was six and the wall of the ta was six.' Mar Zutra said: [A verandah is not sold with a room] only if it has an area of four [square] cubits. Said Rabina to Mar Zutra: On your view that it must be four [square] cubits, what about the cistern, of which we have learnt, that the cistern and the well are not included [in the sale of the house] even if he [the seller] inserts in the deed of sale the words 'to the height and to the depth'? [Are we to say that] there likewise [the rule] applies only if they have an area of four cubits, but otherwise not? — [He replied]: How can you compare the two? The cistern and the well are used for quite different purposes from the house, but here both [the verandah and the house] are used for the same purposes. Hence if it is four cubits [square], it is reckoned as a separate structure, but if less not. NOR AN INSIDE ROOM WHICH IS ENTERED FROM IT. If a verandah is not sold [along with the living room], do we need to be told that an inside room is not?
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