טו וממאי דלמא עד כאן לא קאמר רבי יהודה בית השלחין אין בית הבעל לא אלא מעיין שיצא בתחילה
15 So R'Meir; R'Judah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' J.M.K. I, 1 (81a) and Tosef.,1, I read here, 'and the Sages say' instead, showing that it is R. Judah's view that has been adopted in the MISHNAH: Obviously, the Babylonian teachers engaged in this critical discussion did not have that reading.');"><sup>36</sup></span> says, None but (a field that is)<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A doublet occurring also in the texts given in the next note.');"><sup>35</sup></span> a 'languid plot' that has dried up may be watered [therefrom]. R'Eleazar B''Azariah says, Neither one nor the other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that a newly emerging spring may not be used either for a generally nourished field (again at R. Meir's view) , nor in a 'languid field' even where it has replaced a dried-up old spring (against R. Judah's view) .');"><sup>37</sup></span> R'Judah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He went further in his restrictions, even in the case of a 'languid field'. (Tosaf. v. Ritba) .');"><sup>38</sup></span> went even further and said, 'A person may not clean out a water channel<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A running brook or ditch which has become muddy and shallow, which he may clean out under certain conditions discussed infra 4b.');"><sup>39</sup></span> and [with the dredging] water his garden of debris - [heap]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Used as a vegetable garden or bed for nurslings. V. Tosaf. Lit., 'his garden and his ruin'.');"><sup>40</sup></span> during the festival week'. [Now] what is [meant by a 'languid plot'] that dried up?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that is waste.');"><sup>41</sup></span> If you say, literally dried up' what is the good of watering it? - Said Abaye, It means that this [old] spring has run dry<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'it is dried up from this spring'.');"><sup>42</sup></span> and another has [just] emerged [instead].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [All of which shows that R. Judah does not permit any laborious work even in order to avert loss, as in the case of the old spring having dried up, whereas R. Judah permits watering from the new spring that has emerged but not from rain-water or a swipe-well, which is in agreement with our Mishnah].');"><sup>43</sup></span> R'Eleazar B'Azariah says, Neither one nor the other'. [By this he means to say that] it makes no difference whether the [old] spring has run dry or has not run dry, a newly emerging spring is not to be used. But how [do you arrive at this conclusion]? Perhaps when R'Judah said that a languid plot may be watered from a newly emerging spring and a Baal-plot may not be,