Commentary for Eruvin 121:1

ואין אנשי עיר קטנה מהלכין את כל עיר גדולה

but the people of the small town may not walk through the whole of a large town.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As if it were no bigger than four cubits. They may walk so far only as the termination of their Sabbath limit in whatever part of the town that may happen to be, in agreement with the first ruling of R. Joshua b. Levi.');">¹</span> Now what is the reason?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the difference between the rights of the inhabitants of the large and those of the smaller town respectively.');">²</span> Obviously<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'not?'');">³</span> because the measure of the latter terminated in the middle of the former town,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In agreement with the rulings of R. Joshua b. Levi (cf. supra nn. 10f) .');">⁴</span>

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