Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 57:15

גופא אמר רב מערבין בשתי רביעיות של יין ומי בעינן כולי האי והתניא רבי שמעון בן אלעזר אומר יין כדי לאכול בו חומץ כדי לטבל בו זיתים ובצלים כדי לאכול בהן שתי סעודות

This is conclusive. The Master said: 'Or [to make up the quantity of] food for two meals required for an 'erub'. R'Joseph intended to lay down that [no 'erub may be prepared] unless there is sufficient food of each kind to provide for a complete meal,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'until there is a meal from this and a meal from this', sc. that only two kinds of food may be used so that each kind suffices for One full meal of the two meals prescribed. Were more than two kinds of food to be allowed, each would represent less than the quantity required for one full meal.');">⁴⁷</span> but Rabbah said to him: Even [if each kind of food consisted only] of a half, a third or a quarter [of a meal].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' May an 'erub be prepared.');">⁴⁸</span>

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