Commentary for Eruvin 207:26

כיון דקא חזא דקא

Is it not that the revolution of the wheel produces a sound which is forbidden?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the Sabbath; an objection against Rabbah.');">⁶⁸</span> - No; this is a preventive measure against the possibility of a man's drawing the water for his garden or his ruin.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. for secular purposes whereby no religious duty or observance is performed.');">⁶⁹</span> Amemar allowed the drawing of water by means of a wheel at Mahuza; 'for', he said, 'on what ground did the Rabbis enact a preventive measure against such drawing? Only on the ground that a person might also draw water for his garden or his ruin. But in this place there is neither garden nor ruin'. When, however, he observed that they began to

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