Commentary for Eruvin 64:10

אמר רב יצחק בריה דרב משרשיא הכא באילן הנוטה חוץ לארבע אמות עסקינן

an 'erub is effective even [if it was deposited] above [a height] of ten handbreadths,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the person intended to acquire his Sabbath abode below.');">²⁵</span> since a town is deemed to be full.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. with earth; even the space above the ground, since it is surrounded by houses, assumes some of the characteristics of a private domain, as if the ground itself were raised into the space above. Though movement of objects from the tree to the public domain remains forbidden the person's 'abode' in respect of the 'erub is deemed to be level with it, and the 'erub is consequently valid.');">²⁶</span> If so,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the ground, in respect of 'erub, is deemed to be raised to the level of the 'erub.');">²⁷</span> the same [law should apply to an erub on a tree] beyond the outskirts of a town, for since Raba ruled: 'A man who deposited his 'erub [in any spot] acquires [an abode of] four cubits,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 35a.');">²⁸</span> that spot is a private domain which rises up to the sky?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that the 'erub and the person are virtually in the same domain, however high the 'erub lay (cf. supra n. 2) .');">²⁹</span> - R'Isaac the son of R'Mesharsheya replied: Here we are dealing with a tree whose branches bent over beyond the four cubits

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