Commentary for Eruvin 18:13

אמר רבינא במופלגין מכותל זה בשנים ומכותל זה בד'

were too far apart,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the projections. The principle of labud call only be applied to distances of less than three handbreadths.');">³²</span> surely, [it may be retorted] did not R'Adda B'Abimi recite in the presence of R'Hanina:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. Hiyya Papi (MS.M) ; Hanina b. Papi (Bah) . Marginal note inserts, 'and others say before R. Hanina b. Papa'.');">³³</span> [The ruling applies to a case where] the small courtyard was ten and the large one eleven cubits?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the common wall of the two courtyards was ten cubits in length and extended on either side, in the larger courtyard only, to a length of eleven cubits, so that the joint length of the remaining sections of this wall (cf. supra note 4) cannot be more than one cubit, or six handbreadths. This allows no more than about three handbreadths for each side, from which, again, allowance must be made for the thickness of the projections, leaving a space of less than three handbreadths, to which the principle of labud may well be applied.');">³⁴</span>

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