Commentary for Bava Batra 110:4

אבל לשבת לא

in a certain field, and he says, I went to that place [i.e. plain] but I do not know if I went to that spot or not, R. Eliezer declares him clean and the Sages declare him unclean,'for R. Eliezer used to say that 'if there is a doubt whether a man entered a place of uncleanness he is clean, but if there is a doubt whether he touched an unclean thing, he is unclean.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. VI, 4. We suppose that there is a boundary or hedge in the plain, and since this divides it Into separate fields, he is doubtful even if he entered the field where the grave was, and therefore according to R. Eliezer he is clean. ');">⁷</span> In respect of Sabbath, however, these things do not form a partition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the matter of carrying on Sabbath from a private to a public place or vice versa. ');">⁸</span>

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