or by a minor. Said Abaye to Rabbah: An objection can be raised both against your view and against that of Samuel. For was it not taught: ‘If five residents who collected their ‘erub desired to transfer it to another place, one may take it there on behalf of all of them,’ [from which it follows that it is] that man alone that performs the kinyan and no other, and that it is he alone who acquires the habitation and no other. — The other replied: This is no objection either against my view or against that of Samuel, since the man acts on behalf of all of them. Rabbah stated in the name of R. Hama b. Goria who had it from Rab: The halachah, is in agreement with R. Simeon. MISHNAH. IF A MAN WHO WAS ON A JOURNEY [HOMEWARD] WAS OVERTAKEN BY DUSK, AND HE KNEW OF A TREE OR A WALL AND SAID, ‘LET MY SABBATH BASE BE UNDER IT’, HIS STATEMENT IS OF NO AVAIL. IF, HOWEVER, HE SAID, LET MY SABBATH BASE BE AT ITS ROOT’, HE MAY WALK FROM THE PLACE WHERE HE STANDS TO ITS ROOT A DISTANCE OF TWO THOUSAND CUBITS, AND FROM ITS ROOT TO HIS HOUSE ANOTHER TWO THOUSAND CUBITS. THUS HE CAN WALK FOUR THOUSAND CUBITS AFTER DUSK. IF HE DOES NOT KNOW OF ANY TREE OR WALL, OR IF HE IS NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE HALACHAH, AND SAID, LET MY PRESENT POSITION BE MY SABBATH BASE’, HIS POSITION ACQUIRES FOR HIM THE RIGHT OF MOVEMENT WITHIN A RADIUS OF TWO THOUSAND CUBITS IN ANY DIRECTION; SO R. HANINA B. ANTIGONUS. THE SAGES, HOWEVER, RULED: THE DISTANCES ARE TO BE SQUARED IN THE SHAPE OF A SQUARE TABLET, SO THAT HE MAY GAIN THE AREA OF THE CORNERS. THIS IT IS OF WHICH [THE RABBIS] HAVE SAID: A POOR MAN MAY MAKE HIS ERUB WITH HIS FEET. R. MEIR SAID: WE CAN APPLY THIS LAW TO A POOR MAN ONLY. R. JUDAH SAID: IT APPLIES TO BOTH RICH AND POOR, THE RABBIS ENACTMENT THAT AN ERUB IS TO BE PREPARED WITH BREAD HAVING THE ONLY PURPOSE OF MAKING IT EASIER FOR THE RICH MAN, SO THAT HE SHALL NOT BE COMPELLED TO GO OUT HIMSELF AND MAKE THE ERUB WITH HIS FEET. GEMARA. What exactly is the meaning of ‘HIS STATEMENT IS OF NO AVAIL’? — Rab explained: HIS STATEMENT IS OF NO AVAIL whatsoever, so that he may not proceed even to the space under the tree. Samuel, however, explained: HIS STATEMENT IS OF NO AVAil as regards proceeding to his house; he may, however, proceed as far as the space under the tree. The space under the tree, however, is to be measured [as if one were acting both as an] ass-driver and a camel-driver. If, for instance, the man desired to measure from the northern side of the tree he is told to begin his measuring from its southern side, and if he desired to measure from its southern side he is told to begin his measuring from the northern side.33ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖᵠʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻᵃᵃᵃᵇᵃᶜᵃᵈᵃᵉᵃᶠᵃᵍ