Related%20passage for Shabbat 44:6

ת"ש דאמר רבא היה תפוש נר חנוכה ועומד לא עשה ולא כלום שמע מינה הנחה עושה מצוה התם הרואה אומר לצורכו הוא דנקיט לה

which is a difficulty both on the view that it is because of the cheapening of the precept and on the view that it is because of the impairing of the precept? — R. Papa reconciled it [thus: it is lit] by long wicks.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which reached the other branches. ');">¹¹</span> Yet after all, on the view that it is because of the impairing of precepts there is a difficulty? That is [indeed] a difficulty.

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