Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 70:8

ואי ס"ד תחומין דאורייתא מי מקדרין והא אמר רב נחמן אמר רבה בר אבוה אין מקדרין לא בערי מקלט ולא בעגלה ערופה מפני שהן של תורה

and he then went down to perform immersion and it is doubtful whether he did or did not perform it, and even if he did perform it there is doubt whether the immersion was performed in forty se'ah [of water] or less, and, similarly, if he performed the immersion in one of two ritual baths one of which contained forty se'ah, [of water] and the other contained less, and he does not know in which of the two he performed his immersion he, being in a state of doubt, is clean; so R'Meir;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the reading of Bomb. ed. Cur. edd. omit the last three words, the author of every anonymous Mishnah being known to be R. Meir.');">¹⁵</span> and R'Jose declared him to be unclean?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mik. II, 2; from which it follows that in a doubtful case It. Meir adopts the less restrictive ruling. How then is this to be reconciled with our Mishnah where he adopts the more restrictive one?');">¹⁶</span>

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