Commentary for Eruvin 59:5

איבעיא להו פליגי רבנן עליה דרבי שמעון בן אלעזר או לא ת"ש דאמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן עוג מלך הבשן פיתחו בארבעה

- What could one do there?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of a big corpse in a house of small doors.');">¹²</span> Should it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The corpse.');">¹³</span> be cut to pieces and carried out that way?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is obviously absurd. Hence the ruling that unless one door was wide enough for the passage of the corpse all doors are involved in levitical uncleanness.');">¹⁴</span>

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