Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 38:13

הא ברשות היחיד ספיקו טמא הוא מכדי האי מחט דבר שאין בו דעת לישאל הוא וכל דבר שאין בו דעת לישאל בין ברה"ר בין ברה"י ספיקו טהור

Rather, the first clause is exact, whereas the second is not exact,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., not to be taken in the sense that only these are clean. And this fact follows from the statement of R. Eleazar or R. Jose b. R. Hanina, without which we might have assumed the reverse.');">¹⁸</span> and it is to exclude the narrow paths.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the vicinity of the two main roads. These were used indifferently for both descent and ascent, hence utensils found there were declared unclean, since they were certainly unclean in the first place, and our only doubt is whether they were lost on the way to the baths or on the way from the baths. But utensils found in the rest of Jerusalem, where it is not known whether they have been unclean at all, are clean.');">¹⁹</span>

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