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he turns it into manure, i.e., the chaff acts like manure, and an excessive amount of manure damages the seeds.
Mishnah: One must distance animal carcasses, and graves, and a tannery [haburseki], a place where hides are processed, 50 cubits from the city. One may establish a tannery only on the east side of the city, because winds usually blow from the west and the foul smells would therefore be blown away
Talmud: A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: With regard to what case is R' Akiva speaking? Did he mean that one may establish a tannery on any side of a city, and one may even place the tannery close to the city, except for the west side, where one must establish it at a distance of 50 cubits
The Talmud cites a proof: Come and hear, as it is taught in a baraita: R' Akiva says that one may establish a tannery on any side of the city and distance it 50 cubits, except for the west side, where one may not establish a tannery at all, because the western wind is frequent.
§ With regard to the last statement of the baraita, Rava said to Rav Naḥman: What does frequent mean in this context? If we say it means frequent among the winds, i.e., this wind blows all the time, that is difficult. But doesn’t Rav Ḥanan bar Abba say that Rav says: 4 winds blow every day from dif