Commentary for Eruvin 97:10

אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל המקפיד על עירובו אין עירובו עירוב מה שמו עירוב שמו

permitted in the one which they were not in the habit of using.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Now since Samuel, who ruled here that 'In the case of a courtyard between two alleys the residents of the former, though they made an 'erub with the residents of both alleys, are nevertheless forbidden access to either', also laid down that in respect of 'erub the halachah is to be decided in agreement with that authority that relaxed the law, it follows that even R. Simeon upholds this ruling. For had R. Simeon relaxed it, Samuel, in accordance with his own principle, would have relaxed it too.');">¹⁶</span> Rabbah son of R'Huna ruled: If [the middle courtyard] made an erub with the alley which it was not in the habit of using, the one which it was in the habit of using<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since by its 'erub with the other alley the middle courtyard had intimated its intention not to use it on that Sabbath.');">¹⁷</span>

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