Commentary for Shabbat 277:17
ולישלח להו כדרמי בר יחזקאל לפי שאינן בני תורה
what about a dead man on a Festival?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What arrangements are permissible for handling him, the funeral, etc. ');"><sup>31</sup></span> By the time he [the messenger] arrived [at Levi's home] Levi had died. Said Samuel to R. Menashia, If you are wise, send them [an answer]. [So] he sent [word] to them: 'As for a canopy, we have examined it from all aspects and do not find any aspect by which it can be permitted'. But let him send them [a permissive ruling] in accordance with Rami b. Ezekiel?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who permits its spreading when it is furnished with cords, v. supra 138a. ');"><sup>32</sup></span>
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