Commentary for Megillah 6:15

ואמר ריב"ל כרך שחרב ולבסוף ישב נדון ככרך מאי חרב אילימא חרבו חומותיו ישב אין לא ישב לא והא תניא רבי אליעזר בר יוסי אומר (ויקרא כה, ל) אשר לוא חומה אף על פי שאין לו עכשיו והיה לו קודם לכן

Joshua b. Levi also said: A city which has been laid waste and afterwards settled is reckoned as a city. What is meant by “laid waste”? If you say, that its walls have been destroyed, in which case if it became settled it is reckoned as a city but otherwise not? But has it not been taught: R. Elazar son of R. Yose says: [The text says], “which has a wall” [which implies that it is to be reckoned as a city] even though it does not have a wall now, provided it had one previously?

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