Commentary for Eruvin 167:17

אמר רב נחמן הכא בכותל תשעה עשר עסקינן וזיז יוצא ממנו למטה מעשרה לזה בפתח ולזה בשלשול למעלה מעשרה לזה בפתח ולזה בזריקה

the lower ten handbreadths<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since these are easily accessible to them, while to the tenants of the upper storey they are inaccessible except by the lowering of their objects into that level.');">³⁵</span> and the latter may use the upper ten handbreadths.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. mut. mut. In this case access is easy to the tenants of the upper storey while to those of the courtyard it is accessible only by thrusting.');">³⁶</span> In what circumstances? If a bracket<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Four handbreadths in width.');">³⁷</span> projected from the wall at a lower altitude than ten handbreadths it is assigned to the courtyard, but if it was higher than ten handbreadths<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is now assumed to mean that the bracket was higher than ten handbreadths measured from the upper storey downwards in the direction of the ground of the courtyard.');">³⁸</span> it is assigned to the upper storey. Thus it follows, does it not, that the space intervening<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between the ten handbreadths from the ground and ten handbreadths from the upper storey.');">³⁹</span> is forbidden?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because access to it is equally difficult to both groups of tenants. Those of the upper storey can use it only by lowering their things, while those of the courtyard can use it only by thrusting up their things. This ruling being in agreement with Rab's view, does not an objection arise against Samuel?');">⁴⁰</span> - R'Nahman replied: Here we are dealing with the case of a wall nineteen handbreadths high,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that no space intervened between the lower ten and the upper ten handbreadths.');">⁴¹</span> from which a bracket projected. If [it projected] at a lower altitude than ten handbreadths,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the ground of the courtyard.');">⁴²</span> it is easily accessible to the one [group of tenants]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to this (as if) by a door', Sc. the tenants of the courtyard can easily use that space that is not higher than ten handbreadths.');">⁴³</span> while to the other [group it is only accessible] by means of lowering their things,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the ruling that the use of the bracket 'is assigned to the courtyard'.');">⁴⁴</span> but [if it projected] at a higher altitude [than ten handbreadths]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the ground of the courtyard.');">⁴⁵</span> it is easily accessible to the latter<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 7 mut. mut.');">⁴⁶</span> while to the former [it is accessible only] by means of thrusting.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Its use must consequently be granted to the tenants of the upper storey.');">⁴⁷</span>

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