Commentary for Eruvin 114:5

תנן וכן שלשה כפרים המשולשין אם יש בין שנים החיצונים מאה וארבעים ואחת אמה ושליש עושה אמצעי את שלשתן להיות אחד טעמא דאיכא אמצעי הא ליכא אמצעי לא תיובתא דרב הונא

The reason then<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why the two outer villages may be regarded as one despite the distance of a hundred and forty-one and a third cubits intervening.');">⁹</span> is because there was one in the middle, but if there had been none in the middle the outer two villages would not have been combined. Is not this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The requirement of a third village between the other two.');">¹⁰</span>

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