Commentary for Shabbat 231:4

איבעיא להו הגליונין של ס"ת מצילין אותן מפני הדליקה או אין מצילין אותן מפני הדליקה ת"ש ס"ת שבלה אם יש בו ללקט שמונים וחמש אותיות כגון פרשת ויהי בנסוע הארון מצילין ואם לאו אין מצילין ואמאי תיפוק ליה משום גיליון דידיה בלה שאני

That which is decayed is different.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the parchment of the margins too is perished. The question is where the parchment is quite sound, but the writing is effaced. ');">¹⁰</span> Come and hear: If a Scroll of the Law is effaced, if eighty-five letters can be gathered therein, such as the section, '<i>and it came to pass when the ark set forward</i>,' we must save it; if not, we may not save it. But why so: conclude [that we must save it] on account of its blank space?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is now the entire Scroll. ');">¹¹</span> — As for the place of the writing, I have no doubt, for when it was sanctified it was on account of the writing, [and] when its writing goes its sanctity goes (too]. My problem is only in respect of [the blank spaces] above and below, between the sections, between the columns, [and] at the beginning and the end of the Scroll. Yet conclude [that it must be saved] on that account?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if the place of the writing is no longer sacred, if the margins must be saved, the entire Scroll must be saved ipso facto. ');">¹²</span>

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