Responsa for Yoma 168:15

איני והאמר ר' אסי א"ר יוחנן תשעה כותיים וישראל אחד באותה חצר מפקחין בחצר אחרת אין מפקחין לא קשיא הא דפרוש כולהו הא דפרוש מקצתייהו

gone off into another court.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And in that court he became buried in the debris.');">¹⁴</span> You might have said: Whosoever has gone off, has gone off from the majority which consisted of heathens, therefore the information that in case of danger to human life, we are not concerned with question of majorities which consisted of heathens. But that is not so, for R'Assi said in the name of R'Johanan: In the case of nine heathens and one Israelite, [if a building collapsed upon them while they were all] in that court, one must remove debris, but not if [a building collapsed] in another court?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whereto one of the group had repaired.');">¹⁵</span>

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