Related%20passage for Shabbat 10:2

ואמר רבא בכותל משופע אימור דאמר רבא בספר דעביד דנייח מים מי עבידי דנייחי

If one is reading on the top of a roof,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is a private domain. In the East all roofs were flat and put to use; T.A. I, p. 33. ');">³</span> and the scroll rolls out of his hand, — before it comes within ten handbreadths [of the ground] he may wind it back himself;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because only the first ten handbreadths above the street surface count as public ground. ');">⁴</span>

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