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Mishnah: If a woman was standing on top of the roof and her husband was standing below, and he threw a bill of divorce to her, once the bill of divorce reaches the airspace of the roof, she is divorced. If he was above on the roof and she was below, and he threw it to her, once it leaves the area
Talmud: The Talmud asks: But isn’t the airspace of the roof unsecured? Since the bill of divorce can be blown away from the roof by the wind, it should be considered an unsecured courtyard, which does not acquire items. If so, why is she divorced once the bill of divorce reaches the airspace of th
Ulla bar Menashya said in the name of Avimi that there is another answer: Here we are dealing with a case in which the bill of divorce is within 3 handbreadths of the roof, as anything within 3 handbreadths of the roof is considered to be like the roof itself, based on the principle that views two s
§ It was taught in the Mishnah: If he was above and she was below, and he threw the bill of divorce to her, once it leaves the area of the roof, she is divorced. The Talmud asks: But isn’t the airspace of the courtyard not secured, since the bill of divorce can be blown out of the courtyard by the
And so R' Elazar says that R' Oshaya says: We are discussing a case where the lower partitions extend beyond the upper partitions. And so Ulla says that R' Yoḥanan says: We are discussing a case where the lower partitions extend beyond the upper partitions.