Commentary for Avodah Zarah 91:7

איתמר אבני הר שנדלדלו בני רבי חייא ורבי יוחנן חד אמר אסורות וחד אמר מותרות מ"ט דמ"ד מותרות כהר מה הר שאין בו תפיסת ידי אדם ומותר אף הני שאין בהן תפיסת ידי אדם ומותרין

It has been stated: If boulders become detached from a mountain: the sons of R. Hiyya and R. Yohanan [disagree]; one says that they are prohibited and the other that they are permitted. What is the reason for the one who says they are permitted? [The boulders are] like the mountain; just as the mountain is something on which no manual labor had been performed and is permitted, so these are things on which no manual labor had been performed and they are permitted.

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