Commentary for Eruvin 118:15

ומי אמר רב נחמן הכי והאמר רב נחמן אמר שמואל אנשי חצר ואנשי מרפסת ששכחו

It has the status of a wall<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is not regarded as a door.');">³⁹</span> as has just been laid down;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By R. Nahman, where the ladder was used as a means of entrance into, and exit from the town.');">⁴⁰</span> and it has the status of a door where a ladder<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Four handbreadths wide.');">⁴¹</span> is put up between two courtyards<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which had no door between them.');">⁴²</span> in which case the residents, if they wish, may<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As in the case of two courtyards between which a door communicated (cf. infra 76a) .');">⁴³</span> provide only one 'erub,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For both courtyards; and all the residents are, thereby, permitted to use both courtyards by way of the trip of the wall or through any holes or cracks in the wall.');">⁴⁴</span> and if they prefer, they may provide two separate 'erubs'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One for each courtyard, and the residents of the one do not in any way affect the freedom of movement of the other, each courtyard being regarded as a separate domain.');">⁴⁵</span> Could R'Nahman, however, have made such a statement?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That a ladder has the status of a wall where such status leads to a relaxation of the law.');">⁴⁶</span> Did not R'Nahman in fact lay down in the name of Samuel: If the residents of a courtyard and those of a balcony<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Marpeseth, a balcony or gallery to which the doors of the dwellings of an upper storey open and which communicates with the courtyard below by means of a ladder.');">⁴⁷</span> above it forgot

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