Commentary for Eruvin 199:23

ואי נמי ע"כ לא קאמר ר' יהושע התם שב ואל תעשה עדיף אלא

where<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By climbing down.');">⁶⁴</span> no positive precept is performed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One only avoids thereby the continued infringement of a negative precept against the use of a tree on the Sabbath.');">⁶⁵</span> he may also agree that the man must not climb down. Or else: R'Joshua may have maintained his view, that the abstention from the performance of an uncertain precept<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'sit and do not act'.');">⁵⁹</span> is preferable.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To its performance.');">⁶⁰</span> only there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where he was on the Sabbath on a tree.');">⁵⁷</span>

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