Reference for Bava Batra 28:2

אמר רב אחא בר יעקב ספר עזרה לתחלתו הוא נגלל ואכתי תרי בתרי היכי יתיב אמר רב אשי דכריך ביה פורתא וכרכיה לעיל

Since then the scroll closed in the middle, the space between the two cylinders must have been over and above the two handbreadths. How did this get in to the two handbreadths?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If we assume with R. Meir that there was a scroll in the ark. ');">³</span> — The scroll read in the Temple Court<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On Tabernacles, in accordance with Deut. XXXI, 9-13. ');">⁴</span>

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