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does this refer to the size of lines with the space between lines added? Or is it perhaps referring to lines of writing themselves, without their spaces?
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: It stands to reason that it is referring to the lines with their spaces. As, if it were to enter your mind that it is referring to the lines without their spaces, for what is one line without its space fit? The baraita did not have to state that a document with a singl
R' Shabbtai says in the name of Ḥizkiyya: With regard to the gap of two blank lines between the text and the signatures, which the rabbis said invalidates the document, the lines are measured by the handwriting of witnesses, and not by the handwriting of a scribe, who is presumably skilled enough
The Talmud has established that the width of the gap required to invalidate the document is two lines with interlinear space. The Talmud clarifies: And how much interlinear space is necessary to invalidate the document? Rav Yitzḥak ben Elazar says: For example: enough to write the Hebrew word lekha
Rav Ḥiyya bar Ami states a different opinion in the name of Ulla: For example: enough to write a lamed on the upper line and a final khaf on the lower line. The Talmud concludes: Apparently, Ulla maintains that the empty space required to invalidate the document is the width of two written lines w