Commentary for Bava Kamma 230:10

דעבר לה במסננת כר' נחמיה דתניא מסננת יש בה משום גילוי אמר רבי נחמיה אימתי בזמן שהתחתונה מגולה אבל בזמן שהתחתונה מכוסה אף על פי שהעליונה מגולה אין בה משום גילוי לפי שארס של נחש דומה לספוג וצף ועומד במקומו

This is a sufficient reason in the case where the barrel broke, as [the wine remaining] is still fit to be used, but in the case where the barrel became uncovered, for what use is the wine fit any more? For should you argue that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though it is no more good as a drink. ');">²⁵</span> it is still fit for sprinkling purposes, was it not taught: Water which became uncovered should not even be poured out on public ground, and should neither be used for stamping clay, nor for sprinkling the house,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the venom which it might contain might injure persons walking there barefooted. ');">²⁶</span> nor for feeding either one's own animal or the animal of a neighbour?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef Ter. XVII, and A.Z. 30b. ');">²⁷</span>

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