Study Bava Batra folio 14A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And if he wishes to cut the scroll, he may cut it. The Talmud is surprised at this: What is the tanna saying? Why is mention made here of cutting the scroll? The Talmud answers: This is what the tanna is saying: He arranges the text so that if he finishes a book at the bottom of one column, he beg
The Talmud raises a contradiction between this baraita and another baraita that teaches: Enough parchment should be left at the beginning of the scroll and at its end for winding. The Talmud clarifies: For winding around what? If it means for winding around the pole to which the beginning of the sc
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: The tanna teaches the halakha disjunctively, referring to two separate cases. He issues a general statement requiring that enough parchment be left for winding as needed: At the beginning of the pole, enough to wind around the pole, and at the end of the scroll, enough
Rav Ashi said: When that second baraita is taught, indicating that the same measure of parchment is left at both the beginning and the end of the scroll, it was referring to a Torah scroll, as it is taught in a baraita: All other scrolls are wound from the beginning to the end around a single pole,
§ A baraita states: A Torah scroll should not be made in such a manner that its length, i.e., its height, is greater than its circumference when it is rolled up; nor should its circumference be greater than its length. They asked R' Yehuda HaNasi: What should the size of a Torah scroll be? R' Yehu