Commentary for Shabbat 249:11
אמר עולא והיסק ראשון לרבנן אפילו תלוי בצואר גמל
R. Judah holds: Where tearing down is wanting it is unclean, whilst where tearing down is not wanting it is not unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Yuttaz, fr. nathaz, is generally applicable to the tearing down or demolishing of anything attached to the soil, e.g., a house. Now, since the Bible orders that if an oven is defiled it shall be torn down, it follows that it must be so closely joined to the soil that one can speak of tearing it down. Otherwise the Scriptural law does not apply to it, because technically it is 'torn down' from the very time that it is fixed. Hence in the present case if it is not so closely joined to the ground that one can make a fire in the pit on which it stands and thereby heat the oven, it is likewise 'torn down' ab initio, and therefore is not an 'oven' which can be defiled. By 'unclean' and 'not unclean' susceptibility and non-susceptibility to uncleanness is meant. ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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