Commentary for Shabbat 197:5

אלא דקי"ל דרך רה"ר שש עשרה אמה אנן דגמרינן לה ממשכן דמשכן חמיסרי הואי אמתא יתירא הואי דהוה קאי בן לוי דכי משתלפי קרשים הוה נקיט להו:

Then as to what we have as an established fact that the path [width] of public ground must be sixteen cubits: since we learn it from the Tabernacle,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All definitions in connection with work on the Sabbath are learnt thence. ');">¹²</span> surely [the public ground] of the Tabernacle was [only] fifteen?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Two waggons side by side, each five cubits in width and five cubits' space between them, the whole constituting a public pathway. ');">¹³</span> — There was an additional cubit where a Levite stood, so that if the boards slipped he would support them.

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