Commentary for Chullin 250:24

אמר אביי

They must then [have been suspended] more than a handbreadth away [from the corpse], nevertheless the expression 'whatever touches' is used! - Abaye said: In fact [they were suspended] within a handbreadth [from the corpse], but as for your objection, 'Surely it is nothing else but the corpse in its shroud!' [I reply that] with regard to t corpse in its shroud a man certainly ignores [the existence of the shroud],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he mentally ignores the separate existence of the shroud as a garment but looks upon it as part of the corpse; this, however, cannot be said with regard to the network.');">¹³</span>

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