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עירובין 59:1
Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible
GEMARA. Is THE EXTENDED LIMIT only observed but not the reduced limit? — Read: Even as far as the extended limit. IF THERE WAS A GREATER DISTANCE FOR ONE AND A LESSER DISTANCE FOR ANOTHER etc. What need again was there for this rule? Is it not practically identical with the previous one? — It is this that was meant: If one surveyor extended the limit and another reduced it, the one whose limit is the greater is to be obeyed. Abaye added: Provided the extended limit does not exceed the lesser one by more than the difference between the diagonal and a side of the town. SINCE THE SAGES DID NOT ENACT THE LAW IN ORDER TO ADD RESTRICTIONS BUT IN ORDER TO RELAX THEM. But was it not taught: The Sages did not enact the law in order to relax restrictions but in order to impose them? — Rabina replied. The meaning is: Not to relax restrictions in connection with Pentateuchal laws but to add restrictions to them; the laws of the Sabbath limits, however, are only Rabbinical. MISHNAH. IF A TOWN THAT BELONGED TO AN INDIVIDUAL WAS CONVERTED INTO ONE BELONGING TO MANY, ONE ‘ERUB MAY BE PROVIDED FOR ALL THE TOWN; BUT IF A TOWN BELONGED TO MANY AND WAS CONVERTED INTO ONE BELONGING TO AN INDIVIDUAL, NO SINGLE ‘ERUB MAY BE PROVIDED FOR ALL THE TOWN UNLESS A SECTION OF IT OF THE SIZE OF THE TOWN OF HADASHAH IN JUDEA, WHICH CONTAINS FIFTY RESIDENTS, IS EXCLUDED; SO R. JUDAH. R. SIMEON RULED: THREE COURTYARDS EACH OF WHICH CONTAINED TWO HOUSES. GEMARA. How is one to imagine A TOWN THAT BELONGED TO AN INDIVIDUAL AND WAS CONVERTED INTO ONE BELONGING TO MANY?- Rab Judah replied: The residential district, for instance, of the Exilarch. Said R. Nahman to him: What is your reason? If it be suggested: Because many people meet at the seat of authority they would remind each other, are not all Israel [it may be objected] assembled together on a Sabbath morning also? — Rather said R. Nahman: The private town, for instance, of Nitzwoi. Our Rabbis taught: If a town belonging to an individual was converted into one belonging to many, and a public domain passed through it, how is an ‘erub to be provided for it? A side post or a cross-bean, is fixed on either side and thereby one is enabled to move things about in the space between them. No erub, however, may be provided for a half of it, but either one erub for all of it or one ‘erub for each alley separately. If a town did, and still does belong to many
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