Commentary for Chullin 250:13

למטה מטפח אהל נגיעה למעלה מטפח אהל גרידא

Abaye suggested, [To overshadow uncleanness] within a handbreadth thereof is termed 'overshadowing by contact', but more than a handbreadth away it is termed 'plain overshadowing'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The terms 'contact' and 'overshadowing' employed in the foregoing Baraitha are both to be understood in the sense of overshadowing, but Abaye draws a distinction between two modes of overshadowing. It must be observed that Abaye's suggestion is in no wise in support of R. Johanan's contention that the Tanna of our Mishnah is R. Jose and that the expression in our Mishnah HE WHO TOUCHES includes overshadowing, for according to him only overshadowing within a handbreadth from the unclean matter can be referred to by the term 'touch', accordingly our Mishnah does exclude plain overshadowing so that the difficulty propounded at the beginning of the argument stands. Of course Abaye himself has already explained the Mishnah to his satisfaction as stated above, supra p. 701.');">⁷</span>

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