Commentary for Eruvin 194:21

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> האי איסקופה ה"ד אילימא איסקופה רשות היחיד וקמה רשות הרבים ולא גזרינן דילמא נפיל ואתי לאתויי

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY WRITINGS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., where their preservation or honour is at stake.');">⁶⁰</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>What kind of THRESHOLD is one to imagine? If it be suggested that the threshold was a private domain,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One, for instance, that was no less than ten handbreadths high and four handbreadths wide.');">⁶¹</span> and that in front of it was a public domain,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Into which one end of the scroll had rolled.');">⁶²</span> and that no preventive measure<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Forbidding to roll it back to the reader in the private domain who was still holding its other end.');">⁶³</span> was enacted against the possibility that the entire scroll might fall down<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the ground of the public domain.');">⁶⁴</span> and that one might then carry it in,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Back into the private domain, and thus incur the obligation of a sin-offering.');">⁶⁵</span>

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