Commentary for Bava Batra 114:5

רבינא אמר לעולם לא קפדי והא מני ר' אליעזר היא דתניא ר' אליעזר אומר אפילו ויתור אסור במודר הנאה

R. Johanan said in the name of R. Bana'ah: Joint owners of a courtyard can stop one another from using the courtyard for any purpose save that of washing [clothes], since it is not fitting that the daughters of Israel should expose themselves to the public gaze while washing [clothes].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As they would if they have to go down to the river to do so. ');">⁹</span> It is written: [The righteous one is] he that shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XXXIII, 15. ');">¹⁰</span>

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