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עירובין 34:1
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
Now, why [should this at all be necessary]? Let it rather be land down: Since one could carry it if one wished, [the ‘erub], though one had not actually carried it, is deemed to have been carried? — R. Zera replied: This is a preventive measure against the possibility of [not carrying it even when] a festival occurred on a Sunday. He pointed out to him [another] objection: If a man, intending to acquire his Sabbath abode in a public domain, deposited his ‘erub in a wall lower than ten handbreadths [from the ground], his ‘erub is effective, [but if he deposited it] above [a height of] ten handbreadths [from the ground] his ‘erub is ineffective. If he intended to make his abode on the top of a dove-cote, or on the top of a turret, his ‘erub is valid [if it lay at a height] above ten handbreadths [from the ground; but if it lay at a level] below ten handbreadths [from the ground] his ‘erub is ineffective. but why? Could it not be said here also [that the ‘erub is effective] ‘since one could incline [the dove-cote or the turret] and so lower it to a level of less than ten [handbreadths from the ground]’? — R. Jeremiah replied: Here we are dealing with a turret that was nailed [to the wall]. Raba replied: It may be said to refer even to a turret that was not nailed [to a wall], for we might be dealing with a high turret which, were one to incline it a little, it would project beyond [the original area of] four cubits. But how is one to imagine [the circumstance]? If [the turret] had a window, and a cord [also was available, why should not the ‘erub] be taken up through the window by means of the cord? — This is a case where there was neither window nor cord. IF HE DEPOSITED IT IN A CISTERN EVEN IF IT IS A HUNDRED CUBITS DEEP etc. Where was this CISTERN situated? If it be suggested that it was situated in a private domain,
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