Looking for the date of the neighborhood book swap, Jin runs into a pink flyer he put up himself.
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Jin
I’ll leave these up for now. I can take them down after the event.
Jin was in charge of publicity and put up the pink flyers. Ara pointed to a white notice they partly covered.
02
Jin
They said the date of the book swap would be up here.
A few days after the event, Jin came to check the schedule. Ara gestured toward a familiar pink flyer.
03
Jin
Oh, it was under the flyer I put up.
Jin lifted one flyer and uncovered the schedule. Ara opened a folder for the flyers he took down.
04
Jin
Next time I’ll remember to take them down the day the event ends.
They put the remaining pink flyers into the folder, stepped back, and read the date of the book swap.
A thought from the Talmud
A man threw stones from his own land onto a public path. After selling the field, he stumbled over those stones and realized he still shared that path.
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While preparing the event, Jin used the board to put up flyers. A few days later he needed it to find the date of the book swap. A flyer he had left up was covering the schedule. When we post something in a shared place, we can make sure other notices stay visible and remember when ours should come down.
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What shared place will other people keep using after you’ve finished your part?
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Bava Kamma 50b:2–3 teaches against moving stones from private land onto a public path. In the story, a pious man asks someone throwing stones why he is moving them from a place that is not his to a place that is his. The man scoffs, but later has to sell his field. When he trips over his own stones on the same path, he understands the question. The wisdom line paraphrases the two passages. Jin, Ara, the community hall’s noticeboard, the flyers, the book swap, and the dialogue are AI-assisted modern fiction inspired by the shared use of the path.
