Commentary for Eruvin 60:18

במאי קמיפלגי מ"ס אהל זרוק לאו שמיה אהל ומ"ס אהל זרוק שמיה אהל

And [they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Judah and the first Tanna.');">⁴⁹</span> differ on a principle which is the subject of] dispute among the following Tannas. For it was taught: If a man enters a heathen country<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which conveys levitical defilement to any man that enters it. [It is suggested that the uncleanness of the land of the Gentiles was decreed in the days of Alcimus, in order to stem the tide of emigration that had set in as a result of his persecutions, v. Weiss, Dor. I, 105.]');">⁵⁰</span> [riding] in a chest, box or portable turret he is, Rabbi ruled, levitically unclean, but R'Jose son of R'Judah declares him to be clean.

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