Commentary for Eruvin 118:1

ואין לה אלא פתח אחד מערבין את כולה

but<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Being enclosed on all sides.');">¹</span> had only one gate,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus being short of the requirements of a public domain which must be wide open at both its ends.');">²</span> a single 'erub suffices for all of it. Who is it that learned that a public domain may thus be provided with an 'erub? - R'Huna son of R'Joshua replied: It is R'Judah; for it was taught: 'A more lenient rule than this did R'Judah lay down: If a man had two houses on the two sides respectively of a public domain he may construct one side-post on one side of any of the houses and another on the other side, or one cross-beam on the one side of any of the houses and another on its other side and then he may move things about in the space between them; but they said to him: A public domain cannot be provided with an 'erub in such a manner'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 6af q.v. notes.');">³</span>

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