May one eat in a garden that belongs to another person (or a non-Jew) and wash hands there on Shabbat?
Synopsis
There is a dispute whether watering plants in another person's garden is a psik reisha d'lo nicha leh (unavoidable consequence one does not benefit from), which some authorities permit.
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