תלמוד על גיטין 3:4

What are palisades? Rebbi Abba in the name of Rav Ḥiyya bar Ashi: For examples if bells, chains, and ropes¹⁶⁴Interpretation of Musaphia. The parallel text in Giṭṭin reads וְאִיסְטְרָטִיּוֹת soldiery., and geese, and chickens and machinery¹⁶⁵In Giṭṭin כְּלָבִים “dogs”. The same in the Babli, 27a. surround the town¹⁶⁶The bells, geese, etc. shall make sure that nobody escapes.. And Rebbi Abba in the name of Rav Ḥama¹⁶⁷Here certainlyחמא is a mistake for חייה, cf. Note 159. bar Ashi said, it happened that a blind woman was able to flee from there¹⁶⁸He questions the Mishnah. If a blind woman can escape a siege conducted so that nobody should escape, then everybody could escape and the fact that at the beginning of the siege the wife of a Cohen was in the town does not mean anything.. If there was one breach¹⁶⁹In the palisades surrounding the town., it saves all. If there were hiding places, it is questionable¹⁷⁰It is undecided whether a woman can claim that she was in hiding and not a victim of the entering army.. Rebbi Ze‘ira, Rebbi Abba bar Zavda, Rebbi Isaac bar Ḥaqula, in the name of Rebbi Yudan the prince: Only if there were palisades of that government¹⁷¹The Mishnah speaks only of a revolt or a civil war, when the army is ordered to attack (and enslave) the civilian population. A conquering foreign army might plunder, but its soldiers are not under orders to rape all women. In the interpretation of Tosaphot (s. v. כאן), the same statement appears in the Babli, 27a, in the name of Ḥizqiah.. But palisades from another government are like robbers.