Commentary for Eruvin 121:23
ולמודד שאמרו נותנין אלפים אמה שאפילו סוף מדתו כלה במערה:
AND TO THE MEASURER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. a person who did not deposit his 'erub in the town in question but was measuring his way and advancing towards it from his home town or from a place where he had deposited his 'erub.');"><sup>64</sup></span> OF WHOM [THE RABBIS] HAVE SPOKEN A DISTANCE OF TWO THOUSAND CUBITS IS ALLOWED<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But no more.');"><sup>65</sup></span> EVEN IF THE END OF HIS [PERMITTED] MEASURE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of two thousand cubits.');"><sup>66</sup></span> TERMINATED WITHIN A CAVE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And even if that cave was inhabited. Only in the previous case where the 'erub lay within the town or within the cave did the Rabbis regard the entire area of the town and cave respectively as no bigger than four cubits.');"><sup>67</sup></span>
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