Commentary for Chullin 250:5
בטומאה רצוצה בין ב' מגדלים עסקינן ואין ביניהן פותח טפח דכולה נגיעה היא
- R'Zera answered: We are dealing there [in the first clause] with uncleanness that was confined between two cupboards between which there was not a handbreadth's space, in which case [overshadowing] is regarded as actual contact.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For it is established law that uncleanness which is confined or wedged in - i.e., there is not the air-space of a handbreadth on all sides - breaks through its confines and rises, as it were, in a column directly above, so that whoever passes at any height whatsoever over the uncleanness actually comes into contact with the column of uncleanness and is rendered unclean.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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