UNLESS HE HAS MADE A PARTITION TEN HANDBREADTHS HIGH; SO R. MEIR. THEY SAID TO HIM: IT ONCE HAPPENED AT THE BUTCHERS’ MARKET IN JERUSALEM THAT THEY USED TO LOCK THEIR SHOPS AND LEFT THE KEY IN A WINDOW ABOVE A SHOP DOOR. R. JOSE SAID: IT WAS THE WOOL-DEALERS’ MARKET. Our Rabbis taught: The doors of garden gateways, whenever they have a gate-house on their inner side, may be opened and closed from within; if they have it on their outer side; they may be opened and shut from without; if they have one on either side they may be opened and shut from either side; if they have none on either side they may be neither opened nor shut from either side. The same law applies also to shops that open into a public domain: Whenever the lock is below ten handbreadths from the ground the key may be brought on the Sabbath eve and placed on the threshold, and on the following day the door may be opened and duly closed when the key may again be placed on the threshold; and whenever the lock is above ten handbreadths from the ground. the key must be brought on the Sabbath eve and inserted in the lock, and on the following day It may be opened and shut and returned to its place; so R. Meir. The Sages, however, ruled: Even when the lock is above ten handbreadths from the ground the key may be brought on the Sabbath eve and placed on the threshold, and on the following day the door may be opened and shut and the key may be returned to its place or it may be put on a window above the door. If the window, however, had an area of four handbreadths by four this is forbidden, since the transfer of the key would constitute a transfer from one domain into another. Since it was stated: ‘And the same law applies also to shops It may be concluded that we are dealing with a threshold that had the status of a karmelith; but, then, how are we to imagine the conditions of the lock? if it is one that was less than four handbreadths in width it would surely be a free domain; and if It was four handbreadths wide, would the Rabbis in such a case have ruled: ‘Even when the lock is above ten handbreadths from the ground the key may be brought on the Sabbath eve and placed on the threshold and on the following day the door may be opened and shut and the key may be returned to its place or it may be put on a window above the door’, seeing that thereby one is moving an object iron a karmelith into a private domain? — Abaye replied: The fact is that the lock was less than four handbreadths but there was sufficient space [in the door] in which to cut and make it up to four handbreadths; and it is this principle on which they differ: R. Meir holds the opinion that the door is regarded as virtually cut for the purpose of completing the prescribed width, while the Rabbis maintain that it is not regarded as cut for the purpose of completing the prescribed width. Said R. Bibi b. Abaye: From this Baraitha you may deduce three things: You may deduce that virtual cutting for the purpose of completing a prescribed width may be assumed; you may deduce that R. Meir withdrew from his view on the gates of a garden; and from the ruling of the Rabbis you may also deduce that R. Dimi's view is tenable. For when R. Dimi came he reported in the name of R. Johanan: In a place whose area is less than four handbreadths by four it is permissible for both the people of the public domain and those of the private domain to re-arrange their burdens, provided only that they do not exchange them. MISHNAH. IF A BOLT HAD A KNOB AT ONE END, R. ELIEZER FORBIDS IT [TO BE MOVED] BUT R. JOSE PERMITS IT. SAID R. ELIEZER: IN A SYNAGOGUE AT TIBERIAS THE COMMON PRACTICE, IN FACT, WAS TO TREAT IT AS PERMITTED, UNTIL R. GAMALIEL AND THE ELDERS CAME AND FORBADE IT TO THEM. R. JOSE RETORTED: THEY TREATED IT AS FORBIDDEN, BUT R. GAMALIEL AND THE ELDERS CAME AND PERMITTED IT TO THEM. GEMARA. Where it can be lifted up by the cord to which It was tied, no one disputes that it is permissible to move it] . They only differᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖᵠʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻᵃᵃᵃᵇᵃᶜᵃᵈᵃᵉᵃᶠᵃᵍᵃʰᵃⁱᵃʲᵃᵏᵃˡᵃᵐᵃⁿᵃᵒᵃᵖᵃᵠᵃʳ