Quoting%20commentary for Eruvin 109:12

אמר רבה בר עולא לא קשיא כאן ברוח אחת כאן משתי רוחות

Did not R'Huna in fact rule: If a breach was made in a town wall,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. a breach that completely severed the town in two distinct sections, no houses intervening.');">³¹</span> [the houses on both sides of the breach are regarded as belonging to the same town if the distance between them is] no more than a hundred and forty-one and a third cubits?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A distance representing the length of two karpafs of seventy and two thirds cubits each (which each town is allowed in addition to the Sabbath limit of two thousand cubits) . But if the distance was greater, the two sections are regarded as two different towns. How then could it be said that R. Huna permitted any distance within four thousand cubits?');">³²</span> - Rabbah B''Ulla replied: This is no difficulty, since the former<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A bow shaped town.');">³³</span> deals with a case where the gap was only on one side<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 385, n. 9.');">³⁴</span>

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