Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Eruvin 10:10

מאי אמרת דשוו תרוייהו כי הדדי הוה ליה ספק דבריהן וספק דבריהן להקל:

- R'Huna son of R'Joshua holds the opinion that in an alley also a gap of ten cubits is allowed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'its breach by ten'.');"><sup>24</sup></span> But whose view has been under discussion?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'according to whom do we say', sc. to whose ruling was the argument, a minori ad majus, applied?');"><sup>29</sup></span> [Obviously that] of R'Huna;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A disciple of Rab and teacher of R. Huna son of R. Joshua who (supra 5a) quoted his master.');"><sup>30</sup></span> and R'Huna, surely, is of the opinion, [is he not,] that only a gap of four cubits [is allowed in an alley]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra. How then could this view be reconciled with the inference of R. Huna son of R. Joshua?');"><sup>31</sup></span>

Shev Shmat'ta

We hold that a safek isur Torah is asur, and the opinion of the Rambam in his great work [Mishneh Torah] in several places, is that this rule is only mid'rabanan, and that mid'oraisa all case of doubt are mutar. This is also the opinion of the Raavad. But the Ramban and the Rashba argue and they prove that when Chazal say "you must be stringent on a doubt of Torah prohibiton", that is mid'oraisa. And the Pri Chadash in Yoreh Deah elaborates on this. See there, section 110.
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