Commentary for Eruvin 66:6

כמאן דלא כרבי יוסי ברבי יהודה דתניא רבי יוסי ברבי יהודה אומר נעץ קנה ברשות הרבים והניח בראשו טרסקל וזרק ונח על גביו חייב

surround [the reed],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the rule of 'gud ahith' by which the sides are assumed to descend to the ground may well be applied. The top of the reed may, therefore, be regarded as a private domain.');">¹⁹</span> but here<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A basket attached to the side of a tree.');">²⁰</span> the sides<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the basket.');">¹⁸</span> do not surround [the tree].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the spot on which the 'erub rested were to be regarded as a private domain two processes would have to be postulated, that (a) the tree is imagined to be cut away so as to make up with the basket the prescribed area of four handbreadths and (b) that the sides of the basket descended to the ground. The assumption of two such processes, however, is inadmissible even according to R. Jose son of R. Judah. (For harpns ,htu another interpretation v. Rash s.v., a.l.) .');">²¹</span>

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