Commentary for Eruvin 114:14

נפק אחוי ליה הנך אטמהתא דשורא דמבלעי בדגלת בע' אמה ושיריים:

Said R'Safra to Raba: Behold the people of Ktesifon for whom we measure the Sabbath limits from the further side of Ardashir and the people of Ardashir for whom we measure the Sabbath limit from the further side of Ktesifon;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Two neighbouring places, the former on the eastern and the latter on the western bank of the Tigris, v. Obermeyer pp. 164ff.] Thus assuming that the two towns are combined into one.');">³¹</span> does not the Tigris<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In its course between the two towns.');">³²</span> in fact cut between them a gap wider than a hundred and forty-one and a third cubits?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How then could the two towns be regarded as one?');">³³</span>

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