Musar for Eruvin 195:6
תוך ד' אמות דאי נפיל ומייתי ליה לא אתי לידי חיוב חטאת שרו ליה רבנן
[Hence it is that if the end of the scroll rested] within four cubits where, even if [all the scroll] had fallen down a one would have carried it back,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the threshold.');"><sup>13</sup></span> no obligation of a sin-offering would be incurred,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the prohibition to carry from a public domain Into a karmelith is only a shebuth.');"><sup>14</sup></span> the Rabbis have permitted the man to roll it back;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' i.e., where an end is retained in the reader's hand, a shebuth to safeguard a shebuth was not considered necessary.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Mesilat Yesharim
It was also forbidden to sit on a bed which a Torah scroll lies upon (Moed Katan 25a). Likewise, they said: "it is forbidden to throw out holy writings, even Halachot (laws) and Agadot" (Eruvin 98a, Rambam Hilchot Sefer Torah ch.10). Likewise, they forbade putting books of the Prophets and Writings on top of the Five Books of Moses (Megilah 27a). These are things that our sages, of blessed memory, forbade on the entire congregation of Israel. But the Chasid should learn from them and add on them in various ways for the honor of the Name of the L-rd, his G-d.
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