Commentary for Eruvin 14:1

for if [it be maintained that it is] that of Rab, a twofold contradiction between Rab's statements would arise.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment','(1) Lit., 'a difficulty of Rab upon Rab in two'.');">¹</span> For R'Jeremiah B'Abba laid down on the authority of Rab that if an alley was broken along its full [width]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. its entire back wall collapsed.');">²</span> into a courtyard, and a breach<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of less than ten cubits in width.');">³</span> was made in the courtyard [wall] over against it, the courtyard is ritually fit<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'permitted', as regards the movement of objects on the Sabbath. The breach is regarded as an entrance since portions of the courtyard wall remained on both sides. The ritual unfitness of the alley cannot affect the courtyard since the residents of the former have no right of passage through the latter.');">⁴</span>

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