Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 199:11

אמר רבא תוך ג' לרבנן צריך הנחה על גבי משהו יתיב מרימר וקאמר לה להא שמעתא אמר ליה רבינא למרימר

R. Hanina b. Gamaliel said: If a [sloping] mound attains [a height of] ten [handbreadths] within [a distance of] four, and one throws [an object] and it alights on top of it, he is culpable. <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF ONE THROWS[ [AN OBJECT] WITHIN FOUR CUBITS BUT IT ROLLS BEYOND FOUR CUBITS, HE IS NOT CULPABLE; BEYOND FOUR CUBITS BUT IT ROLLS WITHIN FOUR CUBITS, HE IS CULPABLE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In both cases it did not properly rest before the wind drove it back or forward. ');">¹⁹</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. But it did not rest [beyond four cubits]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why is he culpable in the latter case? ');">²⁰</span> — Said R. Johanan: Providing it rests [beyond four cubits] on something, whatever its size.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even not on the ground itself, and stays there momentarily. Rashi: The same holds good if the wind keeps it stationary for a moment within three handbreadths of the ground 'in the principle of labud (v. Glos.). [Wilna Gaon reads: Provided it rests for a little while.] ');">²¹</span> It was taught likewise: If one throws [an article] beyond four cubits, but the wind drives it within, even if it carries it out again, he is not liable; if the wind holds it for a moment,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Beyond the four cubits. ');">²²</span> even if it carries it in again, he is liable. Raba said: [An article brought] within three [handbreadths] must, according to the Rabbis, rest upon something, however small.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference is to the Rabbis' view that an object caught up in the air is not regarded as at rest, in contrast to R. Akiba's ruling that it is as at rest (supra 97a). Raba states that the Rabbis hold thus even if the object comes within three handbreadths of the ground: it must actually alight upon something, otherwise it is not regarded as having been deposited. ');">²³</span> Meremar sat and reported this statement. Said Rabina to Meremar:

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