Commentary for Eruvin 3:12

והא כי כתיב האי במשכן כתיב

that opens into the Ulam. But is not this text<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'The entrance of the tent of meeting' (v. Supra p. 2, n. 11) . ifan');">³⁷</span> written in connection with the Tabernacle?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' , made by Moses in the wilderness the height of the door of which could not possibly be more than ten cubits since the height of its walls was only ten cubits (v. Ex. XXVI, 16) . How then could our Mishnah allow a height of twenty cubits?');">³⁸</span> - We find that the Tabernacle was called Sanctuary and that the Sanctuary was called Tabernacle.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the permissibility of drawing an analogy between the two. Cf. Shebu. 16b.');">³⁹</span>

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