Study Sukkah folio 16B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Beit Shammai say: The partition that permits drawing water may be placed below; and Beit Hillel said it must be placed above. R' Yehuda said: A partition for the cistern should be no more stringent than the wall serving as a partition between the two courtyards. Once there is a wall between courtya
Rabba bar bar Ḥana said that R' Yoḥanan said: R' Yehuda stated his opinion in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, who said that a suspended partition permits one to carry, and therefore the wall between the courtyards suffices to divide the cistern as well.
The Talmud rejects this equation. And that is not so, as neither does R' Yehuda hold in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, nor does R' Yosei hold in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda.
The Talmud elaborates: Neither does R' Yehuda hold in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, as R' Yehuda states his opinion that a suspended partition suffices only there, with regard to the joining of the courtyards, which is an obligation by rabbinic law. However, here, with regard to sukka,
Nor does R' Yosei hold in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda, as R' Yosei states his opinion that a suspended partition suffices only here, with regard to a sukka, which is a positive mitzva. However, in the case of carrying between courtyards on Shabbat, which is a prohibition that is punish