Commentary for Eruvin 47:20

אמר להו רב אבא (אבוה) דרב בריה דרב משרשיא הכי אמרינן משמיה דרבא מים כנטעים דמו ושרי

objects may be moved<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the Sabbath.');">⁴⁷</span> within a distance of four cubits only.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the place where they rested.');">⁴⁸</span> In connection with this R'Nahman ruled: If a [house] door was opened out into it, the movement of objects is permitted throughout the entire area, [since] the door causes it to be a permitted domain.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The last clause is absent from MS.M.');">⁴⁹</span> This,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The permissibility of movement where a house door opens out into the area mentioned.');">⁵⁰</span> however, applies only<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and he did not say them but'.');">⁵¹</span> where the door was made first<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'when he opened'.');">⁵²</span> and [the area] was enclosed subsequently, but not where it was first enclosed and the door was made afterwards.' Where the door was made first and [the area] was enclosed subsequently', [is it not] obvious [that the movement of objects in the area is permitted]? - [This ruling was] required only in the case where it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The area in question.');">⁵³</span> contained a threshing floor.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between the house and the enclosure round the open area.');">⁵⁴</span> As it might have been assumed that [the door] was made in order to give access<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'with the intention of'.');">⁵⁵</span> to the threshing floor,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And not in connection with the enclosed area at the back.');">⁵⁶</span> we were therefore informed [that no such assumption is made]. Where a karpaf [whose area] exceeded two beth se'ah was originally enclosed for dwelling purposes but was subsequently filled with water, the Rabbis intended to rule [that water is subject to the same law] as seed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 23b ad fin.');">⁵⁷</span> and [that movement of objects in the enclosure] is, therefore, forbidden, but R'Abba<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. 'the father of R. Mesharsheya son of Rab'.');">⁵⁸</span> the brother<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So marg. note. Cur. edd. enclose in parenthesis 'father'.');">⁵⁹</span> of Rab<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. 'Raba' (Emden) .');">⁶⁰</span> son of R'Mesharsheya said: Thus we rule in the name of Raba: Water [is subject to the same law] as plants,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Trees. Cf. supra 23b.');">⁶¹</span> and [the movement of objects within the enclosure] is consequently permitted.

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