Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 68:4

ודידיה לא והא ר' אבהו הוה שקיל ואזיל בתריה דר' יוחנן והוה קרי קריאת שמע כי מטא למבואות מטונפות אישתיק בתר דחליף אמר ליה מהו לגמור א"ל אם שהית כדי לגמור את כולה חזור לראש

and when he came to some dirty alley-ways he stopped, and after they had passed them he asked R'Johanan whether he should finish, and he replied, If you paused long enough to say the whole, you must start again from the beginning? What he meant to say to him was this: 'I do not hold this view,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it is necessary to pause on coming to a dirty place, (V. Ber. 24b) nor, again, that it is necessary to start afresh after a pause.');">⁴</span> but according to you who do hold it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And your difficulty is simply, how long the pause must be.');">⁵</span>

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