Commentary for Shabbat 185:8

אלא לאו משום דאמרינן מסייע אין בו ממש אמר רב פפי משמיה דרבא אף אנן נמי תנינא

if along their length, they are unclean;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because he may have shifted from one to another, so that each received the greater part of his weight. ');">¹³</span> but if along their breadth, they are clean. [But] if he is sleeping, [and] there is a doubt that he may have turned [about upon them],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And come to be along their length. ');">¹⁴</span> they are unclean? Hence<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of the animal. ');">¹⁵</span> it must surely be because we say, helping is no concrete [act]. R. Papi said in Raba's name, We too learnt thus.

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