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רבי יהודה אומר: עמוקה עשרה, ואין גבוהה עשרה — מטלטלין מתוכה לים, אבל לא מן הים לתוכה. מאי שנא מן הים לתוכה דלא — דקא מטלטלין מכרמלית לרשות היחיד, מתוכה לים — נמי קמטלטל מרשות היחיד לכרמלית! אלא לאו אחודה. ושמע מינה כחו בכרמלית לא גזרו. שמע מינה.
R' Yehuda says: If the interior of the boat is 10 handbreadths deep and it is not 10 handbreadths above the surface of the water, one may carry from it into the sea, but not from the sea into it. The Talmud asks: What is different about carrying from the sea into the ship that one may not do so? Is it because in doing so one is carrying from a karmelit into the private domain? In carrying from the ship into the sea, one is also carrying from the private domain into a karmelit. Rather, is it not that from the ship to the sea is permitted because one throws the object onto the edge of the boat and it falls into the sea on its own, and learn from it that the rabbis did not issue a decree prohibiting an action caused indirectly by one’s power in a karmelit? The Talmud summarizes: Indeed, learn from it that this is so.
אמר רב הונא: הני ביציאתא דמישן אין מטלטלין בהן אלא בארבע [אמות]. ולא אמרן אלא שאין בפחות משלשה ארבעה, אבל יש בפחות משלשה ארבעה — לית לן בה. ואי מלנהו קני ואורבני — לית לן בה.
Rav Huna said: With regard to those small boats of Meishan, which are wide on top and narrow at the bottom, one may carry in them only within 4 cubits. Because they are less than 4 handbreadths wide at the bottom, they are not a private domain. And we only said this halakha in a case where the width of the boat does not reach 4 handbreadths less than 3 handbreadths from the bottom of the boat. However, if the width of the boat reaches 4 handbreadths less than 3 handbreadths from the bottom, we do not have this halakha, as those are considered full-fledged partitions which create a private domain. And, similarly, if one fills the bottom of the boat with reeds and thin willow branches up to the point where the boat reaches 4 handbreadths, we do not have this halakha. If there are 10 handbreadths above the point where the boat reaches 4 handbreadths, it is a private domain.