Commentary for Sukkah 20:13

מיתיבי הישן בכילה ערום לא יוציא ראשו חוץ לכילה ויקרא קריאת שמע הכא במאי עסקינן כשגבוהה עשרה

It was objected: He who sleeps in a canopied bed naked may not put his head out of it and read the Shema? The latter refers to a case where [the canopy] was ten [handbreadths] high.

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