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in water. It is a leniency the rabbis instituted in water but not in other circumstances. And why were they lenient with regard to a hanging partition in water? Isn’t there the passage of fish? Rather, learn from this that the passage of fish is not considered passage.
We learned in the Mishnah: If boats are tied together, one may carry an object from one to the other on Shabbat. The Talmud asks: That is obvious, since these boats are like a single domain. Rava said: This Mishnah was necessary only to permit carrying from one boat to another via a small boat tha
Rav Safra said to him: You, who are as great in this generation as Moses, did you speak well? We learned in the Mishnah that one may carry only from one to the other, not via a small boat. Rather, Rav Safra said: The Mishnah was only necessary to obligate one to place an eiruv, a joining of cour
And similarly, in the case of mats that are unfurled to create a partition between two people and the public domain, one places an eiruv and carries from one to the other. If the mats were furled, the people on the boats are prohibited to carry from one to the other. If the mats were then unfurle
The Talmud asks: Is that so? Didn’t Rav Naḥman say: They only taught the principle that a partition established on Shabbat is considered a partition with regard to throwing. In that case, a partition creates a domain unto itself, and one who throws an object into it from another domain is liable. H