Commentary for Eruvin 183:7

איכא דאמרי חייא בר רב אמר אף לשעירבה ושתיהן מותרות ואם תאמר שתיהן אסורות לפי שאין נותנים חצר שלא עירבה לחצר שעירבה התם כיון דמנטרי מאני דבתים בחצר לא שרו בהו רבנן דאתי לאפוקי אבל בחורבה לא מנטרי:

- [No].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is no argument against the suggestion that the meaning is that both are free from restrictions.');">²⁹</span> In that case<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'there', the ruling of R. Simeon according to Rab's interpretation.');">³⁰</span> since the objects from the houses are safe<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'are watched', 'protected'.');">³¹</span> in the courtyard one might carry [many of them) thither];<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. so manly objects are likely to he carried from the houses into the courtyard that they might easily be mixed up with those of the courtyard and carried like them to the next courtyard. Hence the restriction.');">³²</span> but here in the case of a ruin, since the objects from th houses are not safe in a ruin, no one would carry many of them thither.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. mut. mut. As objects from the houses are not likely to be mixed up with those of the courtyard no preventive measure was considered necessary. The case of the ruin, therefore, is no criterion for that spoken of by R. Simeon, and it may well be maintained, as suggested, that in the former case both are free from restrictions'.');">³³</span>

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