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with impurity imparted by a grave in the depths.
The Talmud comments: It is taught in a baraita in accordance with the opinion of Rava, as R' Yehuda says: They would not bring doors at all, because a child has an exaggerated sense of self-confidence and perhaps he will extend his head or one of his limbs beyond the edge of the door and will becom
The Talmud asks: But with regard to a bed, which measures several fistbreadths, didn’t we learn in the Mishnah that R' Yehuda says: It was our custom that we would sleep beneath the bed before the Elders? Apparently, despite the fact that a bed measures several handbreadths, its legal status is no
When Ravin came to Babylonia from Eretz Yisrael he said that R' Elazar said: Oxen are different since they protect the shepherds in the sun from the sun, and in the rain from the rain. Shepherds would lie beneath the bellies of the oxen as protection from the elements. The Talmud asks: If so, i.e.
Rather, Rava rejected that explanation and said: Oxen are different and their status is that of a tent since their bellies and backs are made to protect their innards, as it is stated: “With skin and flesh You have clothed me, and with bones and sinews You have knitted me together” (Job 10:11). Sinc