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1) [line 1] ISTAREI ANA V'IVNAYEI - I will knock down the house and rebuild it
2) [line 2] DUCHTA L'MEIDAR BAH - a place in which to live (in the interim)
3) [line 2] ANA OGAR LACH DUCHTA - I will rent for you a place [to live, while the house is being rebuilt]

4) [line 3] LO TARACHNA - I do not want the bother (of moving)
5) [line 3] LO KA MISDAR LI - I cannot live [like this, with such a low ceiling]
6a) [line 3] SHUF A'KEREISACH V'UL - bend down upon your stomach and enter
b) [line 4] SHUF A'KEREISACH V'PUK - bend down upon your stomach and exit

7) [line 5] LO MATU KESHUREI L'MATAH ME'ASARAH - when the beams of the upper floor have not dropped to under ten Tefachim from the ground

8) [line 8] LO ASNU GABEI HADADEI - they did not stipulate with each other (that if the house sinks they will knock the house down and rebuild it)

9) [line 12] RUMU K'CHATZI ORKO UCH'CHATZI ROCHBO - the height should be half of the length and width combined.

10) [line 14] LO TEISLU BEI BUKEI SERIKEI B'RAV NACHMAN - (lit. do not suspend empty bottles from Rav Nachman) do not attribute empty statements to Rav Nachman

10) [line 15] KI D'DAIREI INSHEI - like the height [of a house] in which people normally live

11) [line 17] D'AILEI ISURYASA D'MECHOZA V'HADAR - [the height necessary] to bring in a bundle of reeds from Mechoza and turn around with it

12a) [line 18] D'HAVAH BANI ASHISA - he was building a wall
b) [line 18] ACHOREI KAVEI D'CHAVREI - behind (and blocking) the windows of his neighbor

13) [line 19] KA MA'AFALT ALAI - you are making my house dark (by blocking the windows)

14) [line 19] SACHARNA LACH HACHA - I will seal off your windows here
15) [line 20] L'EIL - above
16) [line 23] ASHISA, MI'TATA'AH ATIKA, UMIL'EIL CHADTA, LO KAIMA - a wall which has a bottom part that is old and a top part which is new, will not last (because the new plaster will not adhere well to the old plaster)

17) [line 28] BANINA LACH KAVEI B'VINYANA - I will build windows for you in your building

18) [line 32] TIVNA U'VEI TZIVEI B'ALMA - merely a storehouse for straw and firewood

19) [line33] CHAD MATYEI ASPELIDA - one [brother] received a large house [as part of his share of the estate]

20) [line 33] TARBITZA - a garden
21) [line 37] SEDEH LAVAN - a vegetable or grain field (lit. a bright, shadeless field)

22) [line 38] D'ALU L'HADADEI - one compensated the other (since the vineyard was worth more than the Sedeh Lavan, he received cash along with the Sedah Lavan)

23) [line 38] V'CHI B'SHUFTANEI ASKINAN?! - Are we dealing with fools?!
24) [line 40] DEMEI LIVNEI KESHUREI V'HUDREI - the value of the bricks, beams, and boards

25) [line 40] DEMEI AVIRA - the value of the extra space

26a) [line 40] ME'IKARA ASPELIDA PALGAS LI - originally, I received a large house as part of my share
b) [line 41] HASHTA MESHAVIS LI IDRONA - and now all I have is a cellar (as there is no light coming in)

27) [line 41] SHEMA B'ALMA PALAG LEI - all he was due to receive as part of his share was a structure that is called a house (even though now that it is darkened it is more like a cellar)

28) [line 42] BEIS KORA - A Beis Kor is a field that has an area proportional to the area of the courtyard of the Mishkan, which was termed a Beis Se'asayim. Since it measured 100 by 50 Amos, and a Kor is equal to thirty Se'in, a Beis Kor would be a field that has an area of 75,000 square Amos, approximately 15,595.5, 17,280 or 24,883.2 square meters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions

29) [line 43] LESECH - half the size of a Beis Kor (MEASUREMENTS OF VOLUME)

• 1 Kor (= 1 Chomer) = 30 Se'in
• 1 Lesech = 15 Se'in
• 1 Eifah = 3 Se'in
• 1 Se'ah = 6 Kabin
• 1 Tarkav (= 3 Kabin) = 12 Lugin
• 1 Kav = 4 Lugin
• 1 Log (= 1 Rova) = 4 Revi'iyos = 6 Beitzim
• 1 Beitzah = 2 k'Zeisim
• 1 k'Zayis = approximately 0.025, 0.0288 or 0.05 liters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions.

31) [line 46] D'DA'IRNA BEI KI HEICHI D'DARU AVAHASAN - that I will be able to dwell in it just like my father did (i.e. that it had light coming in)

32) [line 1] MAR YENUKA U'MAR KESHISHA - the names of the sons of Rav Chisda (lit. the younger master and the older master. Tosfos says that Mar Yanuka was *older*, and is called "younger" since he was born when his *father* was younger, while Mar Keshisha, the younger child, was called "older" because he was born when his father was older. See also MAHARAM.)

33) [line 5] AMAS HA'MAYIM - a channel of water (the width of an Amah)
34) [line 6] HALACHOS KEVU'OS HEN - the Halachos are firmly established
35) [line 7] TAVRA - a receipt (proving that the debt was already paid)
36) [line 8] AGVUYEI LO MAGVINAN LEI - we would not allow the orphans to collect with it (since the debtor has a receipt)

37) [line 12] MAR'EI LEI - find fault with it
38) [line 14] SAHADEI B'SHAKAREI LO MECHAZKINAN - witnesses are not assumed to be liars (testifying falsely)

39) [line 17] L'AFUKEI - to take it out (and show it)
40) [line 18] ZIYUFEI ZAIFEI - he certainly forged it
41a) [line 19] BEIS SHA'AR - a gatehouse
b) [line 22] DELASAYIM - doors
c) [line 22] BERI'ACH - a bolt
42) [line 28] HAVAH MISHTA'I BAHADEI - he would converse with him
43a) [line 29] MI'GAVAI - on the inside
b) [line 30] MI'BARAI - on the outside
44) [line 33] POSACHAS - a key hole

45) [line 39] ZIMNIN D'DACHAKEI BENEI RESHUS HA'RABIM - sometimes the people in the public thoroughfare would be crowded and push their way in

46) [line 40] AILU V'ASU - they will go up and enter (the private courtyard)
47) [line 42] SEFAR - the border
48) [line 43] ZIMNIN D'MIKRU V'ASI GAISA - sometimes roving bandits happen to come by

49a) [line 44] LEFI NEFASHOS GOVIN - the amount collected is divided up equally per the number of people
b) [line 44] LEFI SHEVACH MAMON GOVIN - the amount collected is divided up according to the wealth of the people

50) [line 45] KAVA BAH MASMEROS - knock nails into it (be careful not to veer from this decision)

51) [line 46] LEFI KIRUV BATIM - the amount collected is divided up based upon how close to the wall each one lives (the closer to the wall one lives, the more protection he needs)

52) [line 48] RAMA D'SHURA AD'RABANAN - he levied the tax for building a wall around the city upon the Rabanan as well

53) [line 48] RABANAN LO TZERICHEI NETIRUSA - the Rabanan do not need protection [of a wall, for their Torah and Mitzvos protect them]

54) [line 49] "ESPEREM ME'CHOL YIRBUN" - "If I count them, they would be more numerous than the sand" (Tehilim 139:18)

55) [line 49] NEFISHEI ME'CHALA - they are more numerous than sand
56) [last line] SHADAI - my breasts

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