Quoting%20commentary for Pesachim 83:9
דרשה רב מתנה בפפוניא למחר אייתו כולי עלמא חצבייהו ואתו לגביה ואמרו ליה הב לן מיא אמר להו אנא במיא דביתו אמרי
R'Mattenah taught this [in a public lecture] at Papunia.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A town between Bagdad and Pumbeditha, and included in the juridical district of the latter. Obermeyer, Landschaft, p. 242. - He lectured in Hebrew, using the actual words 'mayim shelanu', which may also mean, water belonging to us. - This suggests that Hebrew was sufficiently well known by the masses to make public lectures in that language possible.');"><sup>11</sup></span> On the morrow all took their pitchers and repaired to him and demanded of him, 'Give us water'.
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