WELLS MAY BE PROVIDED WITH STRIPS OF
WOOD (as an enclosure).
. .IT
IS PERMITTED TO BRING [THE STRIPS] CLOSE TO THE WELL, PROVIDED A COW CAN BE
WITHIN [THE ENCLOSURE WITH] ITS HEAD AND THE GREATER PART OF ITS BODY WHEN
DRINKING
Our page discusses this in some
detail. (Some? A lot!)
[This
refers,] does it not, to a case where [the keeper] holds both the cow and the
vessel? — No, [it may refer to one] who holds the vessel but not the cow. . .
But
is it at all permitted
[to
give drink to a cow on the Sabbath] where one holds the vessel and not the
animal? Was it not in fact taught: A man must not6 fill [a vessel with] water and hold it before his beast on the Sabbath
but he fills [his bucket] and pours it out
[into
a trough] and the cow drinks of its own accord?
The concern being that the animal
could pull the bucket out of the enclosure – or worse still – some cause the
keeper to carry the bucket out, thus removing it from private to public domain.
But what about a camel?
Come
and hear: A camel whose head and the greater part of its body is within [a
private domain] may be crammed within [that domain]. Now is not the act of
cramming, the same as holding the bucket and the animal, and yet it is
required that its head and the greater part of its body [shall be within the
private domain].
R.
Aha son of R. Huna replied in the name of R. Shesheth: A camel is different
since its neck is long.
His head is enough!
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