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Sukah Chart #4

Sukah Daf 16a

HOW TO MAKE A MECHITZAH
TO SEPARATE THE WATER IN A PIT
  OPINION(1)
1) UNDER THE WATER LEVEL --(2)
2) JUST ABOVE THE WATER(3) Beis Hillel(6)
3) JUST BELOW GROUND LEVEL(4) Beis Shamai and Tana Kama(5)
4) ABOVE GROUND LEVEL Rebbi Yehudah
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FOOTNOTES:
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(1) The lower the Mechitzah, the more effective it is in separating the water in one side of the pit from the water in the other side.
(2) This is the opinion of Rav Huna in Eruvin. (Rav Huna and Rav Yehudah argue about the opinions of the Tana'im. Rashi explains the opinions cited in our Gemara in accordance with the view of Rav Huna. See Chart for Eruvin 86a.)
(3) One Tefach of the Mechitzah must reach beneath the surface of the water as well (as explained by Yakov Karchina'a in Eruvin 86a).
(4) This is the Halachah, according to Rav's opinion that a "hanging Mechitzah" ("Mechitzah Teluyah") is valid when it is over water (if it was made for the water).
(5) In our Gemara, the Tana Kama says that the Mechitzah may be made "Bein mil'Ma'alah, Bein mil'Matah, Bein b'Soch Ogno" -- "either above, below, or just inside the rim." According to this Girsa, the world "mil'Ma'alah" (above) must mean that the Tana Kama holds that a Mechitzah works to separate the water in the pit even when it is built *above* the rim of the pit, like Rebbi Yehudah says. Tosfos discusses a similar Girsa in which the Tana Kama says "Bein mil'Ma'alah, Bein mil'Matah mi'Soch Ogno" -- "either above, or below just beneath the lip of the pit." Tosfos rejects this Girsa because Rebbi Yehudah seems to be a separate opinion and not agreeing with the Tana Kama. Furthermore, the word "mil'Ma'alah" as Beis Shamai uses it certainly means beneath the lip of the pit (but above the water level), as the Gemara clearly says in Eruvin; it cannot be that the world "mil'Ma'alah" of the Tana Kama means above the lip of the pit. The correct Girsa of our Gemara, therefore, is "Bein mil'Matah, Bein b'Soch Ogno" (but not "Bein mil'Ma'alah"), meaning "either in the lower half of the pit (reaching one Tefach into the water), or below the lip of the pit (above the level of the water)." This appears to be the Girsa of Rashi and Tosfos in our Sugya. The words "Bein mil'Ma'alah" indeed do not appear in the Girsa of the Dikdukei Sofrim, nor in the Gemara in Eruvin (86a).

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