Related%20passage for Eruvin 71:3

אמר רב הונא בר חיננא שאני טומאה הואיל ויש לה עיקר מן התורה שבת נמי דאורייתא היא קסבר ר' יוסי תחומין דרבנן

- R'Huna B'Hinena replied: [The laws of] uncleanness are different, since their origin is Pentateuchal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As certain cases of uncleanness are Pentateuchal, and consequently subject in case _ of doubt to the more restrictive rulings, a similarly restrictive course had to the adopted in the case of Rabbinical uncleanness, since otherwise the former might erroneously be mistaken for the latter and treated with similar laxity.');">⁷</span> [But are not the laws of] Sabbath limits also Pentateuchal? - R'Jose is of the opinion [that the laws of the Sabbath] limits are Rabbinical.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is no need in this case to provide against the possibility of mistaking the Pentateuchal laws relating to work on the Sabbath for the Rabbinical ones of the Sabbath limit, as was done in the case of uncleanness (cf. previous note) , since unlike the forms of uncleanness which are similar to one another, work and walking are two different processes which could not possibly be mistaken for one another (Rashi) .');">⁸</span> And if you prefer I might reply:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bah inserts, 'this is no difficulty'.');">⁹</span>

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