Talmud for Eruvin 59:4

ואביי התם היכי ליעביד הדומי נהדמיה [ונפקיה]

[must<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the other doors and cavities in the house in which the corpse lies are to remain levitically clean (v. next note) .');">⁹</span> be as big] as his full size?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that his body might be carried through it without widening it. In that case that door only is levitically unclean while all other doors through which the corpse would not be carried remain levitically clean. Where the door, however, is not wide enough for the passage of the corpse, so that it is uncertain which of the doors of the house would be widened and used for such passage, all doors and wall cavities of the size of a human fist become levitically unclean (v. Bez. 37b) . R. Simeon b. Eleazar in thus declaring all doors and cavities unclean on account of the inadequacy of the door for the passage of the big corpse, though it is adequate enough for the passage of one of average size, obviously adopts the restrictive view. How then could it be said that in respect of 'erub he adopts the lenient one?');">¹⁰</span> And Abaye?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who implied supra that the law for the minority is determined by the conditions governing the majority, how could he reconcile his principle with the ruling of R. Simeon b. Eleazar (v. previous note) just cited?');">¹¹</span>

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