Commentary for Bava Batra 35:1

המלח ואת הסיד ואת הסלעים מכותלו של חבירו ג' טפחים או סד בסיד טעמא דאיכא כותל הא ליכא כותל סומך

SALT, LIME, AND FLINT STONES AT LEAST THREE HANDBREADTHS FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR'S WALL OR PLASTER THEM OVER. The reason is that there is a wall, but if there is no wall he may bring these things close up to the boundary?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosaf, asks here, how can we argue from these things to a pit, seeing that they do not injure the soil, and Raba might well allow them to be brought close up while disallowing the pit? The answer given is (a) that they also make the soil on the other side less suitable for a pit; (b) that it may be inconvenient for the man who wants to dig the pit to wait till they have been removed. The same would apply to the next three difficulties raised by the Gemara, which are all addressed to Raba. ');">¹</span>

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