Itamar is tidying up his room, and throwing out the toys he no longer needs straight to the corridor, and from the corridor to the stairs in his building, and from the stairwell to the street. How does his father teach him that the corridor, stairwell, and even street are "his"? "One may not clear rocks from their domain to the public domain…" (Talmud Bavli, Tractate of Baba Kamma, 50b) The Talmud tells us that a person may not clear rocks from their backyard to the public domain. Shared spaces, or Reshut Harabim, belong to all of us. Rinat Primo gradually takes the readers from the protagonist's home, to their building, and the street, reminding us with a smile that it is our responsibility to keep our surroundings clean and tidy.
Age Group: PRESCHOOL
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generalOut is an adaptation of the following short story that appears in the Talmud:
One should not clear stones from their domain to the public domain. Once, a man was clearing stones from his domain to the public domain when a pious man found him doing so and said to him: ‘Fool! Why do you clear stones from a domain which is not yours to a domain which is yours?’ The man laughed at him. Some days later he had to sell his field, and when he was walking in that public domain he stumbled over those stones. He then said: ‘How well did that pious man say to me, “Why do you clear stones from a domain which is not yours to a domain which is yours?”‘
(Talmud Bavli, Tractate of Baba Kamma, 50b)
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555 2019-2020
