Halakhah for Bava Kamma 209:15

אמרי הכי השתא התם אי לא מרח לא קאי אגף חציה במידי דקאי קאי

Now the reason why this is so is because it was smeared, so that if it would not have been smeared this would not have been so. But why should this not be like a case where half of the hole was blocked up?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the query of Raba should be answered in the negative. ');">³⁸</span> — It might, however, be said that there is no comparison at all: for in that case if he did not smear it the blocking would not hold at all,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the smearing is essential. ');">³⁹</span> whereas here<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in the query of Raba. ');">⁴⁰</span>

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