Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 225:4

ורמינהו חבל דלי שנפסק לא יהא קושרו אלא עונבו ורבי יהודה אומר כורך עליו פונדא או פסקיא ובלבד שלא יענבנו

while R. Judah holds, We do not preventively forbid? But the following contradicts it: If the cord of a bucket is broken, one must not tie it [together] but merely make a loop [slip-knot]; whereas R. Judah maintains: One may wind a hollow belt or a fascia around it, providing that he does not tie it with a slip-knot. [Thus] R. Judah's [views] are self-contradictory and [similarly] the Rabbis'? — The Rabbis' [views] are not self-contradictory: one rope may be mistaken for<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'interchanged with'. ');">⁸</span> another,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As in n. 4. ');">⁹</span> [whereas] looping cannot be mistaken for knotting.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' No one will think that if the former is permitted the latter is too. ');">¹⁰</span>

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