Commentary for Eruvin 179:7

וכי מאחר דחזיא לדירה מאי קמיבעיא ליה אם תימצי לומר קאמר אם תימצי לומר אכסדרה לא חזיא לדירה חורבה חזיא לדירה או דילמא השתא מיהא לית בה דיורין תיקו

raise the question?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It should have been obvious to him that the answer was, as in the case of roofs of dwelling-houses, in the negative.');">²⁵</span> - His enquiry was in the nature of an alternative question:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'He said: If you will find (some reason) for saying', sc. R. Bebai was neither certain that a ruin is to be regarded as a suitable dwelling-place nor that it was subject to the same law and status as all exedra, and his enquiry depended on one of the two possible alternative answers to Rami's enquiry.');">²⁶</span> If, [he said in effect,] you will find [some reason] for answering<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rami's question.');">²⁷</span> that an exedra is unfit as a dwelling,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And that the movement of objects between its roof and the roof of a dwelling-house is, therefore, permitted.');">²⁸</span> [will you agree that] a ruin is fit<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With some slight adjustments.');">²⁹</span>

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