Halakhah for Eruvin 101:14
ורבנן תני רב חנניה אומר כזה יהו כל שובתי שבת
As to R'HANINA B. ANTIGONUS what possible justification is there for his view?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'whatever is your desire'.');"><sup>37</sup></span> If he upholds the word analogy<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between the expressions in the various texts cited supra in support of the prescribed two thousand cubits for the Sabbath limit.');"><sup>38</sup></span> [the objection could be raised:] Does not Scripture<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Num. XXXV, 5.');"><sup>39</sup></span> speak of 'sides'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'sides are written'. A 'side' could not apply to a circle.');"><sup>40</sup></span>
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim
2. What is the private domain? A place surrounded by walls that are ten tefachim that is four by four, or a pit that is ten tefachim deep and four by four, or a hill that is ten tall and four by four. Rem"a: Some say that the diagonal also must be four tefachim, like we will explain below in chapter 349. (Hagahos Ashiri; Tosefos)
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