Commentary for Eruvin 65:4

מאי רבי ומאי רבנן

an object that comes to rest upon It is guilty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shab. 3a; of the offence of desecrating the Sabbath, because the column has the status of a public domain. Where, however, the public do not adjust their burdens upon the column it is not deemed a public domain and no guilt is incurred by the man who threw the object because, though he lifted it up in a public domain, it did not come to rest in a public domain, and no guilt for throwing a distance of four cubits in a public domain is incurred unless both the lifting and the resting of the object took place in a public domain.');">¹²</span> What is the source of the dispute between,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what . . and what'.');">¹³</span> Rabbi and the Rabbis?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Referred to supra 32b.');">¹⁴</span> - It was taught: If he deposited it on a tree above [a height] of ten handbreadths, his 'erub is ineffective;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, as was explained supra, the man's intention was to make his abode at the root of the tree whose branches extended horizontally across the public domain to a distance of four cubits and then turned upwards into a vertical position.');">¹⁵</span>

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