Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 161:18

וחכמים אומרים לא זכו לו מעותיו

Samuel<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [As an experiment in connection with the study of the Divine order to Ezekiel IV, 9ff (v. Tosaf. a.l.) ].');">²⁷</span> and he did not eat it but threw it to his dog? - That bread was prepared from a mixture of several<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., other',');">²⁸</span> kinds,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence it could not be regarded as proper bread.');">²⁹</span> for so<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That such a mixture of different kinds cannot be regarded as proper bread.');">³⁰</span> it is also written: Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. IV, 9, dealing with a time of siege and famine when people eat anything they can get. In normal times no one would look upon such bread (cf. Tosaf a.l. Rashi has a different interpretation) .');">³¹</span> R'Papa replied: That bread was baked with human dung, for it is written: And thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. IV, 12. ohruga ohrugha');">³²</span> What [is the significance of 'barley' in the clause] And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. IV, 12. ohruga ohrugha');">³²</span> - R Hisda explained: In rations.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' (se'orim) 'barley' is read as (shi'urim) 'fixed quantities', 'rations'; Ezekiel is asked to ration his food as is done during a siege,');">³³</span> R'Papa explained: Its preparation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. MS.M., R. Han., Rashi and Emden.');">³⁴</span> shall be in the manner of barley bread and not in that of wheat bread.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Greater care is taken in the preparation of the latter which is more expensive and more nourishing.');">³⁵</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>A MAN MAY GIVE A MA'AH TO A SHOPKEEPER<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a wine-seller, who lives with him in the same alley.');">³⁶</span> OR A BAKER<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the same courtyard.');">³⁷</span> THAT HE MIGHT THEREBY ACQUIRE A SHARE IN THE 'ERUB;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the other residents would come to buy wine for shittuf or bread for the 'erub of their courtyard.');">³⁸</span> SO R'ELIEZER'THE SAGES, HOWEVER, RULED: HIS MONEY ACQUIRES NO SHARE FOR HIM<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Acquisition of an 'erub, like that of any other object, can be effected only by means of a definite act such, for instance, as meshikah, v. Glos. Even if the shopkeeper or baker subsequently conferred possession upon all the residents as a free gift this man does not acquire his share in it, since transfer of possession in the case of 'erub requires the consent of the beneficiary who, in this case, distinctly expressed his desire to acquire it as a purchase and not as a gift (cf. Tosaf. a.l.) .');">³⁹</span>

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