Commentary for Eruvin 59:6

התם דאיכא פתחים קטנים טובא ואיכא חד דהוי ארבעה דודאי כי קא מרוח בההוא קא מרוח

The question was raised: Do the Rabbis differ from R'Simeon B'Eleazar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of a big corpse in a house of small doors.');">¹²</span> or not? - Come and hear what Rabbah B'Bar Hana stated in the name of R'Johanan: The door of' Og King of Bashan,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra nn. 2ff.');">¹⁵</span> is to be four [handbreadths] wide.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It need not be big enough for the passage of the corpse to protect the other doors against defilement. Their view thus apparently differs from that of R. Simeon b. Eleazar.');">¹⁶</span>

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