Parallel
עירובין 24:2
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
Amemar ruled: This [applies only to such water] as is fit for use but not [to such as are] unfit for use. R. Ashi ruled: Even where it is fit for use the ruling applies only where the layer of water does not extend over more than two beth se'ah but if it does extend to more than two beth se'ah [the movement of objects within it] is forbidden. But this is not correct, since [water] is in the same category as a heap of fruit. There was at Pum Nahara a certain open area whose one side opened into [an alley in] the town and the other side opened into a path between vineyards that terminated at the river bank. How, said Abaye, are we to proceed? Should we put up for it a [reed] fence on the river bank, one partition upon another partition, surely, cannot [in such a case, usefully] be put up. And should the shape of a doorway be constructed for it at the entrance to the path between the vineyards, the camels coming [that way] would throw it down. [The only procedure,] therefore, said Abaye, [is this:] Let a side-post be put up at the entrance to the path of the vineyards so that [this construction], since it is effective in respect of the path of the vineyards, is also effective in respect of the open area. Said Raba to him: Would not people infer that a side-post is effective in the case of any path among vineyards. Rather, said Raba, a side-post should be put up at the entrance to the alley, and since the side-post is effective in respect of the alley it is also effective in respect of the open area. Hence it is permitted to move objects within the alley itself. It is also permitted to move objects within the open area itself. [But as regards] the moving of objects from the alley into the open space or from the open space into the alley, R. Aha and Rabina are at variance. One forbids this and the other permits it.
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