Commentary for Eruvin 117:11

היתה של רבים והרי היא של רבים

and thereby one is enabled to move things about in the space between them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This applies only to a town that had no wall round it so that the two ends of the public domain terminated in the open country. Hence It is only in the case of a town that was originally in private ownership that the contrivances mentioned are sufficient. In the case of one that always belonged to the public such contrivances are invalid, all the town's alleys being subject to restrictions similar to those of the public domain.');">²³</span> No erub, however, may be provided for a half of it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since originally it constituted one domain it cannot now be broken up into two independent domains. The inhabitants of the one half (like the residents in one of the courtyards of an alley who failed to participate in the 'erub of the other courtyards that cause the entire alley to be forbidden to all) cause the entire town to be forbidden to all.');">²⁴</span> but either one erub for all of it or one 'erub for each alle separately.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The objection will be raised infra as to why (cf. prev. n.) the alleys do not cause one another to be forbidden to all.');">²⁵</span> If a town did, and still does belong to many

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