Commentary for Eruvin 61:4

והא קא מאהיל דמייתי לה אחוריה

But does not [a wooden piece] constitute a tent?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' if it is a handbreadth, in circumference. Such a tent (ohel) in accordance with a Rabbinical enactment (v. Shah. 17a) conveys uncleanness to the man who carries it and he thus becomes unfit to eat clean terumah of which, his 'erub was prepared. vsujt vhrujt');">⁸</span> - One might carry it edgeways.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. and marg. note on Rashi a.l. (Cur. edd. , 'behind him') . Where the edges measure less than a handbreadth, and the piece of wood is carried in a vertical position, no 'tent' is constituted.');">⁹</span> If so, what could be the reason of the Rabbis?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who do not allow the deposit of an 'erub even on an isolated grave. Granted that a movable 'tent' is no valid partition in a graveyard, why should not a priest standing at the side of an isolated grave be allowed in this manner to remove his 'erub from it and eat it?');">¹⁰</span>

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