Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 185:13

איבעיא להו אחד בזה ואחד בזה ושנים באמצעי מהו אי להכא נפקי תלתא הוו ואי להכא נפקי תלתא הוו

is treated as a caravan who are allowed as much space as they require.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Certainly' of cur. edd. is deleted with Bah.');">³⁷</span> If the middle one had projections<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf supra p. 643, n. 11. mut. mut.');">³⁸</span> while the two outer ones had none<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The karpafs having been situated with the largest in the middle and flanked on both of its sides by a smaller one.');">³⁹</span> and one man occupied each, the three men together<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the man of the middle karpaf, which is bigger than those occupied by the other two men and which has virtual doorways opening towards them, now has the influence over the others, in consequence of which the latter cannot be treated as the occupiers off his karpaf to form with him a joint group of three (the minimum required to constitute a caravan) , while he himself, despite his influence on the two, can only be regarded as the occupier of the one or the other of the outer karpafs so that no more than two men (a number less than the minimum required for a caravan) ever occupy any one of the karpafs.');">⁴⁰</span>

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