<div dir="ltr">R' Zev Sero provided a bunch of links which point to the source of requiring 600,000 for a reshus harabim.<div><br></div><div>While the links were very interesting they had absolutely nothing to do with the question I asked. I asked a very practical question. It is very clear from all of the gezeras that Chazal made that <span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:18.899999618530273px">there was a real concern that people would violate the issur d'oraysa of carrying in a</span><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:18.899999618530273px"> reshus harabim. This means that in the time of Chazal reshus harabim doraysas had to have existed in many places, otherwise why make so many gezeras for a situation that never occurs. My question is very simple. How is that in the time of Chazal when populations were much smaller and cities were much much smaller Chazal there seemed to be reshus harabims d'oraysa everywhere, while today we basically cannot find one anywhere?</span></div>
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