Commentary for Eruvin 148:4

אמר רב יהודה אמר רב מבוי שצידו אחד עובד כוכבים וצידו אחד ישראל אין מערבין אותו דרך חלונות להתירו דרך פתחים למבוי

in his own home<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which was outside the alley in question.');">¹⁵</span> came<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During Samuel's lifetime.');">¹⁶</span> to spend his nights at the Synagogue.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose door opened into that alley. He was, therefore, regarded by Samuel as a resident. After Samuel's death, however, the superintendent discontinued that practice and the Synagogue was entirely unoccupied at night. Hence R. Anan's action.');">¹⁷</span> Eibuth B'Ihi [however] thought that one's dining place is the cause [of shittuf],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the Synagogue superintendent only spent the night in the alley but dined elsewhere he could not, in the opinion of Eibuth b. Ihi, be regarded as one of its occupants. He, therefore, gained the impression that Samuel acknowledged the validity of his side-post on the ground that one house and one courtyard suffice to constitute an alley. Hence his remonstrance with R. Anan.');">¹⁸</span> while Samuel [in reality] was merely acting on his own principle he having laid down that one's night's lodging<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not dining.');">¹⁹</span>

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