Commentary for Eruvin 209:12

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך המוצא תפילין וסליקא לה מסכת עירובין</strong></big><br><br>

R'SIMEON SAID etc. What does R'Simeon refer to?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'where does he stand'?');">²⁸</span> - He refers to a previous statement<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'there he stands'.');">²⁹</span> where we learned: If a man was overtaken by dusk even when only One cubit outside the Sabbath limit, he may not enter it. R'Simeon ruled: Even if he was fifteen cubits away he may enter, since the surveyors do not measure exactly on account of those who might err.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 52b, q.v. notes.');">³⁰</span> The first Tanna having thus ruled: 'he may not enter', R'Simeon said to him, 'He may enter'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since even when the man is fifteen cubits away from the Sabbath limit he is already within it. The Sages have thus merely given back what they had previously taken away.');">³¹</span> SINCE THEY HAVE ONLY PERMITTED YOU THAT WHICH IS FORBIDDEN AS SHEBUTH. What does he refer to?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He could not refer to the cited case of Sabbath limit since the question of shebuth does not come there into consideration.');">³²</span> - He refers to another Statement<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'there he stands'.');">²⁹</span> where the first Tanna ruled that it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The string of a levitical harp that was broken in the Temple on the Sabbath.');">³³</span> may be tied up,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 102b.');">³⁴</span> in connection with which R'Simeon said to him:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In his statement in the Baraitha.');">³⁵</span> He may Only secure it with a loop; Only a loop which cannot involve one in the obligation of a sin-offering did the Rabbis permit,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'which does not come to the hands of. . him'.');">³⁶</span> but a knot which might involve one in the obligation of a sin-offering the Rabbis did not permit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Simeon says in effect, 'Though I relaxed the law in the case of the Sabbath limit I do not allow a knot to be made in a broken harp string, since only in the former case can the argument he advanced that the Sages have merely given back what they had previously taken away' (cf. Tosaf. and Rashi a.l.) . ');">³⁷</span>

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