Jerusalem Talmud Bava Metzia 2:6

משנה: עַד אֵימָתַי חַייָב לְהַכְרִיז. עַד כְּדֵי שֶׁיֵּדְעוּ שְׁכֵינָיו דִּבְרֵי רִבִּי מֵאִיר. רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר שְׁלֹשָׁה רְגָלִים וְאַחַר הָרֶגֶל הָאַחֲרוֹן שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כְּדֵי שֶׁיֵּלֵךְ לְבֵיתוֹ שְׁלֹשָׁה וְיַחֲזוֹר שְׁלֹשָׁה וְיַכְרִיז יוֹם אֶחָד. MISHNAH: How long does one have to make it public⁷⁷To actively seek out the owner.. Until his neighbors know, the words of Rebbi Meïr. Rebbi Jehudah says, three holidays, and after the last holiday seven days so that one goes home during three days, comes back during three days, and makes it public for one day⁷⁸Presuming that every person who made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem publicly declare there his finds (at the “stone of claimants”, Babli 28b) so that everybody hear all declarations and can inform his neighbors about the objects found. The person who lost an advertised object then can go to Jerusalem..

הלכה: עַד מָתַי חַייָב לְהַכְרִיז כול׳. תַּנֵּי. בָּרִאשׁוֹנָה הָיוּ מַכְרִיזִין שְׁלֹשָׁה רְגָלִים וְאַחַר רֶגֶל הָאַחֲרוֹן שִׁבְעַת יָמִים כְּדֵי שֶׁיֵּלֵךְ שְׁלֹשָׁה וְיַחֲזוֹר שְׁלֹשָׁה וְיַכְרִיז יוֹם אֶחָד. מִשֶּׁחָרַב בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הִתְקִינוּ שֶׁיְּהוּ מַכְרִיזִין שְׁלֹשָׁה יָמִים. מִן הַסַּכָּנָה וְאֵילַךְ הִתְקִינוּ שֶׁיְּהֵא מוֹדִיעַ לִקְרוֹבָיו וְלִשְׁכֵינָיו וְדַייוֹ. HALAKHAH: “How long does one have to make it public,” etc. It was stated⁷⁹Tosephta 2:17; a different version in the Babli 28b.: In earlier times one made it public during three holidays, and after the last holiday seven days so that one goes home during three days, comes back during three days, and makes it public during one day. After the destruction of the Temple they instituted that one has to make it public during three days⁸⁰In the Tosephta, 30 days. In the Babli, “one has to give notice in the synagogues and houses of study”, no time limit given. In one Babli ms: “One only has to give notice in the synagogue.” A similar notice is implied by Bava Metzia 2:7:2" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Bava_Metzia.2.7.2">Halakhah 8.. Starting from the danger⁸¹Hadrian’s persecutions when all synagogues were closed and religious assemblies were forbidden (S. Lieberman). they instituted that one has to inform his relatives and neighbors⁸²In the Tosephta and some Babli texts, “his relatives, neighbors, and acquaintances.”; this is sufficient.