Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Eruvin 5:26

רבינא אמר סוכה דאורייתא לא בעי חיזוק מבוי דרבנן בעי חיזוק

replied: In the case of a sukkah, since [it is usually intended] for the use of an individual, one might not remember [the altitude of the roof].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Should, therefore, the section below the altitude of twenty cubits dry up or fall down it might never occur to the individual that his Sukkah, the roof of which was now completely higher than twenty cubits, was no longer valid. He would thus unconsciously live in an invalid Sukkah and so transgress a Pentateuchal precept.');"><sup>59</sup></span> In the case of an entrance however, since [it is made] for the use of many, [the people concerned] would remind one another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Supra n. 4 mutatis mutandis.');"><sup>60</sup></span> Rabina replied:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. Supra note 2.');"><sup>61</sup></span>

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