Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 3:11

ורבנן אי הוה כתב אל פתח אולם כדקאמרת השתא דכתיב אל פתח אולם הבית הבית הפתוח לאולם

but the reason for R'Judah's ruling here is because it is written: To the entrance of the Ulam of the house.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' No such verse has been preserved in M.T. Tosaf. (s.v. a.l.) suggests that this quotation is a composite text based on Ezek. XL, 48, 'To the Ulam of the house and Ezek. XLVII, 1, 'The door of the house'.');">³⁴</span> And the Rabbis?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, in view of the specific description of the entrance to the Ulam as 'an entrance', could they refuse to recognize similar measurements in the case of an entrance to an alley?');">³⁵</span> If it has been written: 'To the entrance of the Ulam' [the implication would indeed have been] as you suggested; now, however, that the text reads,I 'To the entrance of the Ulam of the house',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' No such verse has been preserved in M.T. Tosaf. (s.v. a.l.) suggests that this quotation is a composite text based on Ezek. XL, 48, 'To the Ulam of the house and Ezek. XLVII, 1, 'The door of the house'.');">³⁴</span> [the meaning is the entrance of] the house<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the Hekal.');">³⁶</span>

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