Related%20passage for Shabbat 185:5

אמר מר זה יכול וזה אינו יכול דברי הכל חייב הי מנייהו מיחייב אמר רב חסדא זה שיכול דאי זה שאינו יכול מאי קא עביד אמר ליה רב המנונא דקא מסייע בהדיה אמר ליה מסייע אין בו ממש

they are unclean, because it cannot stand on three;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that each one is regarded as affording complete support. since the bed cannot stand without it, and therefore the cloth under it is unclean as midras (v. p. 312, n. 9). — For a thing to become unclean as midras the greater weight of the zab must rest on it. ');">⁷</span> but R. Simeon declares it clean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Consistently with his view here that where neither can do the work alone, each is regarded merely as a help. ');">⁸</span>

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