Commentary for Eruvin 120:11

אמר רבא תרוייהו תננהי אנשי עיר גדולה מהלכין את כל עיר קטנה

for what is the difference whether the measure terminated in the middle of the town or at the end?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Apparently none.');">²⁴</span> - Said Raba: We have learnt<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 61a.');">²⁵</span> both these cases: The people of a large town may walk through the whole of a small town,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That was situated within its Sabbath limit. Now this must imply that the whole of the small town is regarded as no bigger than four cubits and that the remainder of the Sabbath limit may be made up by extending the limit beyond the far side of the small town, in agreement with R. Joshua b. Levi's second ruling.');">²⁶</span>

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