Quoting%20commentary for Eruvin 71:6

אדרבה העמד מקוה על חזקתו ואימא לא חסר במקוה שלא נמדד

Raba replied:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In explaining the apparent contradiction between the two rulings of R. Jose.');">¹⁴</span> The reason there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Mishnah cited from Mik. where the man is deemed to be unclean even in a case of doubt.');">¹⁵</span> is that R'Jose [maintains]: 'Take the unclean to be in his presumptive condition [of uncleanness] and suggest, therefore, that he may not have performed the ritual immersion'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since no ground whatsoever exists for a contrary suggestion. Hence the restrictive ruling. In the case of the 'erub in our Mishnah, however, against the presumption that the man's abode is his permanent home there is the presumptive cleanness of the terumah; and, since 'erub is a Rabbinical institution, the less restrictive course is followed.');">¹⁶</span>

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