Commentary for Bava Batra 324:7

איבעיא להו שני שיטין שאמרו

And there is nothing strange<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'be not astonished'. ');">¹²</span> [in this law],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That a blank of two lines renders the deed invalid, while disqualified signatures. though ignored, and though covering the space of two lines, do not. ');">¹³</span> for [while] air [space]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Corresponding to a blank in a deed. ');">¹⁴</span> renders the festive tabernacle ritually unfit when [that space measures only] three [handbreadths],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the tabernacle has only three walls, and the air space of three handbreadths in the roof runs across the entire length or breadth of the tabernacle intercepting one or two of the walls, so that the tabernacle is, as it were, short of the prescribed minimum number of walls. (Cf. Tosaf. s.v. [H] a.l.). ');">¹⁵</span> unfit roofing<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The roof of the festive tabernacle must consist of twigs or any other suitable materials which grow from the ground and are not subject to Levitical defilement. ');">¹⁶</span> renders [it] ritually unfit [only] when [that roofing measures] four [handbreadths].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Suk. 17a. ');">¹⁷</span> The question was raised: [Do] the 'two lines' which were mentioned<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In respect of the law that a blank space of two lines between the text of a deed and the signatures of the witnesses renders the deed invalid. ');">¹⁸</span>

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