Commentary for Eruvin 137:9

ההוא דנפק בחומרתא דמדושא כיון דחזייה לר' יהודה נשיאה כסייה אמר כגון זה מבטל רשות לר' יהודה

might refer to one who is a mumar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'changed', 'converted', an apostate, a person who does not conform to the Jewish law.');">²⁶</span> in respect of desecrating the Sabbath in privacy only, while the latter<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Baraitha which regards the Sadducee as a gentile.');">²⁷</span> might deal with one who desecrates the Sabbath in public. Whose view is followed in what was taught: 'A mumar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'changed', 'converted', an apostate, a person who does not conform to the Jewish law.');">²⁶</span> or a barefaced sinner is not entitled to renounce his share'? - But is a barefaced sinner on a par with a mumar?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Barefacedness, surely, is not so great an offence as the denial of the laws of the Sabbath.');">²⁸</span>

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