Commentary for Eruvin 186:14

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on the Sabbath<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, for instance, a wall between two courtyards collapsed and the tenants of one courtyard arrived so to speak at the other.');">³⁶</span> impose restrictions? - R'Hisda<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hanina (MS.M.) , Hinena (Bah) .');">³⁷</span> replied: Come and hear: IF THE FULL WIDTH OF A WALL OF A SMALL<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. relevant note on our MISHNAH:');">³⁸</span> COURTYARD WAS BROKEN DOWN<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is now assumed to have occurred on the Sabbath.');">³⁹</span> SO THAT THE YARD FULLY OPENED INTO A LARGE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. relevant note on our MISHNAH:');">³⁸</span> COURTYARD, THE USE OF THE LARGER ONE IS PERMITTED, BUT THAT OF THE SMALLER ONE IS FORBIDDEN BECAUSE THE GAP IS REGARDED AS A DOORWAY TO THE FORMER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which shows that restrictions are imposed.');">⁴⁰</span> Is it not possible to assume', Rabbah objected, 'that the breach occurred while it was yet day? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the Sabbath eve (cf. supra n. 10) .');">⁴¹</span> Said Abaye to him, Do not say: Master, 'It is possible to assume' but rather, 'It is 'certain that the breach occurred while it was yet day', for, surely, it was the Master himse who stated: 'I enquired of R'Huna and also of Rab Judah as to what was the law where an 'erub was laid in reliance on a certain door and that door was blocked up, or on a certain window and that window was stopped up? And each replied: Since permission for that Sabbath was once granted the permissibility continues until the conclusion of the day'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 17a q.v. notes.');">⁴²</span> It was stated: If a wall between two courtyards<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which had no common door and the tenants of which did not join in a single 'erub for the two courtyards.');">⁴³</span> collapsed,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' on the Sabbath.');">⁴⁴</span> Rab ruled, it is permitted to move objects within four cubits only,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the tenants of the courtyards impose restrictions upon another despite the fact that when the Sabbath began each group of tenants was allowed the use of its own courtyard.');">⁴⁵</span> but Samuel ruled:

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