Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 13:4

אמר ר"נ בר יצחק כוליה כרב עבדוה דאמר רב הונא אמר רב הלכה ואין מורין כן

- R'Shezbi replied: We do not adopt the restrictions of two [authorities who differ from one another] only<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'when do we not do etc.'?');">⁹</span> where [their views] are mutually contradictory<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. where the reason which impelled one authority to restrict a certain law inevitably led him to relax it in another case, while the authority that by another process of reasoning relaxed the law in the first case was led by the same process to restrict it in the latter. Anyone, therefore, who adopts either both lenient rulings or both restrictions takes up an untenable position, since the very reason for restriction in the one case is also a reason for relaxation in the other.');">¹⁰</span> as, for instance, in the case of the 'backbone and skull'; for we learned,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Oh. II, 3; Bek. 37b.');">¹¹</span>

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