Related%20passage for Eruvin 157:6

נתן עליו נסר שרוחב ד': אמר רבא לא שנו אלא שנתן לרחבו אבל לארכו אפילו כל שהוא נמי שהרי מיעטו מד':

was taught only in the case where it was laid across the width of it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The trench.');">¹⁶</span> but if it was laid lengthwise<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He fixed the length of the board to one side of the trench in the form of a ledge so that the length of the board and of the trench run parallel to each other, the length of the former being no less than four handbreadths, the prescribed minimum for the width of a 'doorway'.');">¹⁷</span> even a board of the minutest width<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Provided it was wide enough to reduce the width of the trench on a length of four handbreadths (cf. prev. n.) to less than four handbreadths.');">¹⁸</span> also suffices,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To eliminate the trench.');">¹⁹</span>

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