English of Core Text: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: The whole world drinks from the residual waters of the Garden of Eden, as it is said “And a river went out from Eden to water the garden.”
On the daf / in context: The verse is the source for the idea that the world’s water supply ultimately derives from the overflow of Gan Eden.
Type of Learning: Custom (world’s water from Gan Eden residual)What Is Learned: All the world’s drinking water is the residual flow from the river of Gan Eden.