Commentary for Eruvin 141:20

מאי אין צריכין לערב שכנים בהדי בעל הבית אבל שכנים בהדי הדדי צריכין לערב

- Rabbah replied: Here we are dealing with a courtyard that was situated between two alleys,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The tenants of which had a stock of wine in common with the residents of the one alley and a stock of oil in common with those of the other, so that the wine and the oil do not serve the purpose of one 'erub but that of two 'erubs, one for each alley.');">⁴²</span> R'Simeon following his own View.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the residents of one courtyard may join in two 'erubs with the residents of two alleys respectively even though the latter, not having been joined to each other by an 'erub, are forbidden access from one to the other.');">⁴³</span> For we learned: R'Simeon remarked: To what may this case be compared? To three courtyards that open one into the other and also into a public domain, where, if the two outer ones made an 'erub with the middle one, it is permitted to have access to them and they are permitted access to it, but the two other ones are forbidden access to one another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 45b, q.v. notes. Similarly (cf. prev. n.) in the case of the wine and oil, though the two alleys (cf. supra p. 497, n. 10) were not joined to one another, and access between them is forbidden, the courtyard may be joined to both of them and access between it and the alleys is permitted.');">⁴⁴</span> Said Abaye to him:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rabbah.');">⁴⁵</span> Are the two cases at all alike, seeing that there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Mishnah cited.');">⁴⁶</span> it was stated: 'The two outer ones are forbidden,' while here It was stated that THEY NEED NOT JOIN IN AN 'ERUB at all?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Implying full permissibility of access.');">⁴⁷</span> - The ruling that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what'.');">⁴⁸</span> THEY NEED NOT JOIN IN AN 'ERUB applies only to one between the neighbours and the householder, but the neighbours among themselves must certainly join in an 'erub.

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