Halakhah for Eruvin 39:16

דתנן רבי יהודה אומר אם היתה דרך רה"ר מפסקתן יסלקנה לצדדין וחכ"א אינו צריך רבי יוחנן ור"א דאמרי תרווייהו כאן הודיעך כחן של מחיצות

not this] obvious, for if [the strips had] not [Pentateuchally constituted a valid] partition how could it have been permitted to draw water?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to fill' (Sc. the cattle troughs or buckets) from the well which is a private domain. By so doing one would be guilty of carrying from a private domain into a public domain since an enclosed area that is not a private domain even Pentateuchally must assume the status of the public domain in which it is situated. MS.M. reads: 'how could the Rabbis permit the movement (of objects) '.');">34 - [The ruling]35 was necessary only [for this purpose:] That [a man] who put up, in a public domain, [an enclosure]36

Kitzur Shulchan Arukh

On Shabbos and Yom Tov¹For it is written, “A man shall not go out from his place on the seventh day.” (Exodus 16: 29) See Maseches Eiruvin 17b. There is a question if this law is Biblical or a Rabbinic enactment. it is forbidden²Some poskim rule that Yom Tov and Shabbos are equal regarding boundaries, and others say that the laws of boundaries on Yom Tov are only derabanan, (Rabbinically ordained). to walk more than 2, 000 amos from the place you were³This refers to your place of dwelling which is determined by where you are when Shabbos begins; you then acquire shevisah. at the onset of Shabbos. This is [in addition] to the space a person occupies which is four⁴The space the person occupies is not included in the 2, 000 amos. Mishnah Berurah 396: 8 rules that with regard to techumin a person’s place is not four by four amos, but rather, eight by eight amos. amos. This is true only if you happen to be in the field at twilight,⁵Or, if you left the techum on Shabbos, in which case you must stop and remain in your place until the end of Shabbos. but if you stayed in a city⁶Even if the city has no surrounding wall. [Shulchan Aruch Harav 396] [at the onset of Shabbos,] then the entire city is considered your place of residence. The outskirts of the city are also considered part of the city. What are the outskirts [of the city]? An area of seventy and two third amos.⁷See Maseches Eiruvin 57a. [This area] is considered part of the city, even though there are no buildings there. This is called the karpeif⁸Means park or yard, or enclosure. [enclosure] of the city. It is from the edge of this area that we begin to measure the techum Shabbos.

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