was drawn away or suspended [at a distance of] less than three handbreadths [from the walls of the alley] there is no need to provide another beam, [but if the distance was] three handbreadths another beam must be provided. R. Simeon b. Gamaliel ruled: [If the distance was] less than four handbreadths there is no need to provide another beam [but if it was] four handbreadths another beam must be provided. Does not ‘drawn away’ [mean that the beam was altogether] outside [the alley], and ‘suspended’ [that it was] within? No; both [refer to a beam] within the alley, but by ‘drawn away [was meant that the beam was drawn away] from one side, and by ‘suspended’ [that it was drawn away] from both sides. [As] it might have been assumed [that the law of] labud is applied [only where the beam is removed] from one side but not [when it is removed] from the two sides, hence we were informed [that in the latter case also the law of labud applies]. R. Ashi replied: [The meaning is that the beam was] drawn away [from the walls] and also suspended. And how is this to be imagined? [That a man], for instance, inserted on the tops of the two side-walls of an alley respectively two slanting pins whose height is less than three handbreadths and whose slant also is less than three handbreadths. [Since] it might be assumed that we call apply either the law of labud or that of habut, but not that of both labud and habut, hence we were informed [that both may also be applied]. R. Zakkai recited in the presence of R. Johanan: [The space] between the side-posts and beneath the cross-beam is subject to the laws of a karmelith. ‘Go out’, the other told him, ‘recite this outside’. Said Abaye: It stands to reason that the view of R. Johanan [applies to the space] under the beam but [that] between the side-posts is forbidden. Raba, however, said: [The space] between the side-posts is also permitted. Said Rabbi: Why do I say this? Because when R. Dimi came he reported in the name of R. Johanan: In a place whose area is less than four by four [handbreadths] it is permissible for both the people of the public domain and those of the private domain to rearrange their burdens, provided only that they do not exchange them. And Abaye? — There [it is a case] where [the place] was three handbreadths in height. Said Abaye: Why do I say this? Because R. Hama b. Goria said in the name of Rab: [The space] within a gateway requires a special side-post to render it permissible. And should you suggest that [this is one] where the area is four handbreadths by four, surely, [it can be retorted] R. Hanin b. Raba stated on the authority of Rab: [The space] within a gateway, though it is less than four handbreadths by four, requires a special side-post to render its use permitted. And Raba? — There [it is a case where the alley] opens out into a karmelith. Is this, however, permitted [where the alley opens out] into a public domain? The native [then would be] in the earth and the stranger in the highest heavens? Yes, the like has found its like and is aroused. Said R. Huna son of R. Joshua to Raba: Do you not uphold the view that [according to R. Johanan, the space] between side-posts is forbidden? Surely, Rabbah b. Bar Hana stated in the name of R. Johanan: If [a section of one side of] an alley was lined with side-posts [fixed within distances of] less than four [handbreadths between one another, the question of its use] is dependent on the dispute between R. Simeon b. Gamaliel and the Rabbis. [Now this obviously means, does it not, that] according to R. Simeon b. Gamaliel, who ruled [that in respect of such distances the law of] labud is applied, one is allowed to the [the alley from the interior thereof only] up to the inner edge of the innermost post and that according to the Rabbis, who ruled [that in respect of a distance of more than three handbreadths, the law of] labud is not applied, one is allowed to use [the alley] up to the inner edge of the outermost post, but [the use of the space] between side-posts is unanimously forbidden? And Raba? — There also [it is a case] where [the alley] opens out into a karmelith. Would this, however, be permitted [where the alley opened out] into a public domain? The native [then would be] in the earth and the stranger in the highest heavens? — Yes, the like has found its like and is aroused.65ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖᵠʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻᵃᵃᵃᵇᵃᶜᵃᵈᵃᵉᵃᶠᵃᵍᵃʰᵃⁱᵃʲᵃᵏᵃˡᵃᵐᵃⁿᵃᵒᵃᵖᵃᵠᵃʳᵃˢᵃᵗᵃᵘᵃᵛᵃʷᵃˣᵃʸᵃᶻᵇᵃᵇᵇᵇᶜᵇᵈᵇᵉᵇᶠᵇᵍᵇʰᵇⁱᵇʲᵇᵏᵇˡᵇᵐ