Commentary for Shabbat 233:7

א"ל אביי לדידך נמי לרבנן נציל לתוכו אוכלין ומשקין

Beth Shammai maintain: [It requires] a stake and a beam;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A stake at the side of the entrance and a beam across it. ');">¹³</span> Beth Hillel say: Either a stake or a beam; R. Eliezer said: Two stakes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ben Bathyra however holds that in order to save holy writings R. Eliezer too is more lenient. ');">¹⁴</span> Said Rabbah to him, If there are three walls and one stake, do you call it open!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not, even if it be conceded that two stakes are required to make it fit. ');">¹⁵</span> Moreover, according to the Rabbis, let us save thither even foodstuffs and liquids?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., where it is closed with two stakes carrying should be entirely permitted therein, and not restricted to holy writings. [The Rabbis state infra 120a that foodstuffs may be saved by carrying them into a courtyard furnished with an 'erub, but not into an alley.] ');">¹⁶</span> Rather said Rabbah, [it is to be explained thus]: [If it contains] two walls and two stakes,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is open at each end, and a stake is placed at both entrances. ');">¹⁷</span> it is a closed alley; two walls and one stake, it is an open alley, and both<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. n. 4. ');">¹⁸</span> are based on [the view of] R. Judah. For it was taught: Even more than this did R. Judah say: If one owns two houses on the opposite sides of the street, lie can place a stake or a beam at each side and carry between them. Said they to him: A street cannot be made fit for carrying by an 'erub in this way.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 6a bottom for notes. Ben Bathyra holds that where the saving of holy writings is in question R. Judah is more lenient. ');">¹⁹</span> Said Abaye to him, But according to you too, on [the view of] the Rabbis let us save thither even foodstuffs and liquids?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Seeing that in your opinion the Rabbis hold with R. Judah that two partitions and two stakes render the space fit for carrying. ');">²⁰</span>

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