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daf bit: Bava Batra 18
The talmud now turns to things that, while done on your property, can
encroach on your neighbors and so are further restricted. The mishna
lists several things that must be set back at least three handbreadths
from your neighbor's wall, including ditches, olive refuse, dung, salt,
lime, and flint-stones, unless he plasters them. (In the case of the
ditch it means plastering the sides so it can't erode and undermine the
wall; it's not clear to me how plastering would apply to the others.)
The g'mara then asks: it says his wall; does this mean that if
there is no wall he can place these right up against the property line?
No, they still have to be set back, but the mishna mentions a wall
because these are all things that can damage a wall if in contact.
The mishna also lists mill-stones; here the reason in the g'mara is
that the vibration from milling can cause damage (and there is no
plastering contingency). Ovens, too, because of the heat.
The g'mara then adds that one may not open a bakery or a dyer's shop
under another's storehouse, nor place a cowshed there, though if the
cowshed was there first he may keep it. (17a mishna, 18a g'mara)

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Oh, the first one set a short-term pattern in your memory that your fingers followed the second time. Not to worry.
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