Commentary for Eruvin 167:9

אמר רב יצחק בריה דרב יהודה הכא בבור מלאה מים עסקינן והא חסרא

This may be a satisfactory explanation in the case of the rock;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which, being more or less on a level with the balcony and easily accessible to its tenants, may well be assigned for their use.');">¹⁷</span> what, however, can be said as regards<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what is there to say'.');">¹⁸</span> A CISTERN?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose bottom cannot he reached even by the tenants of the gallery except by lowering their buckets while the tenants of the courtyard can use it only by means of thrusting their buckets into it across its bank. Now since in this case of thrusting by the latter and of lowering by the former the use of the bank was granted to the former, the objection again arises against Rab who in such circumstances maintained that both groups of tenants are forbidden access.');">¹⁹</span>

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