Commentary for Eruvin 122:3
מאי אין בה דיורין אינה ראויה לדירה
An objection was raised: SAID R'AKIBA TO THEM, DO YOU NOT AGREE WITH ME THAT IF A MAN DEPOSITED HIS 'ERUB IN A CAVE HE MAY WALK NO FURTHER THAN TWO THOUSAND CUBITS FROM THE PLACE OF HIS 'ERUB? THEY REPLIED: WHEN IS THIS THE CASE? ONLY WHEN NO PEOPLE DWELL THEREIN from which it is obvious, is it not, that where NO PEOPLE DWELL THEREIN they agree with him?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That Only two thousand cubits are allowed. How then could R. Eleazar maintain that the Rabbis conferred the same rights whether an 'erub was put in an inhabited or in a deserted place?');"><sup>8</sup></span> - By the expression.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what'.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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