Commentary for Eruvin 198:17

והא רבין בר רב אדא אמר רבי יצחק מעשה במבוי אחד שצידו אחד כלה לים וצידו אחד כלה לאשפה ובא מעשה לפני רבי ולא אמר בו לא איסור ולא היתר

[it might be objected,] for<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'wherefore to me'.');">³⁶</span> an embankment that was ten handbreadths high?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if there were no embankment the drawing up of water through the window would have been permitted, since a cistern, ten handbreadths deep, is itself a private domain and, being within four handbreadths from the wall, no material part of the public domain intervened between it and the wall.');">³⁷</span> - R'Huna replied: We are here dealing with a cistern that was removed four handbreadths from the wall.

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