Commentary for Eruvin 66:4

מאי רבי יהודה דתניא רבי יהודה אומר נעץ קורה ברשות הרבים והניח עירובו עליה גבוה י' ורחבה ד' עירובו עירוב ואם לאו אין עירובו עירוב

but if it was not tell [handbreadths] high it is not necessary for its top to be four [handbreadths wide].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. even if it is less than four handbreadths wide the 'erub is effective, since an object suspended within ten handbreadths from the ground is deemed to be resting on the ground itself.');">¹¹</span> In agreement with whose view?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Did Rabina (spurn 33a ad fin.) lay down that, though the width of the basket brings up a portion of a tree to the prescribed size of four handbreadths, the status of a private domain cannot be imparted to that portion unless the full height of the tree from the ground to that Spot was four handbreadths wide.');">¹²</span> - [It is apparently] not in agreement with that of R'Jose son of R'Judah, seeing that it was taught: R'Jose son of R'Judah ruled: If a man inserted a reed in [the ground of] a public domain and on the top of it he fixed a basket,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Four hand breadths wide.');">¹³</span> any one who threw<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the public domain.');">¹⁴</span>

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