Mesorat%20hashas for Eruvin 57:19

לא קשיא הא בעלים הא באימהות דתניא אכל בצל והשכים ומת אין אומרין ממה מת ואמר שמואל לא שנו אלא בעלים אבל באימהות לית לן בה ובעלין נמי לא אמרן אלא

a' Ardaska<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M., Ardaskis. Artaxata the capital ',1 Armenia (Wiesner) , Damascus (Kohat and Jast.) .');">⁵⁶</span> when a certain man appeared before him and said to him, 'Master, I have prepared an 'erub' from onions [to enable me to walk] to Tibe'in',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tibe'in was within two thousand cubits (the prescribed Sabbath limit) from the spot where the man's erub was laid down, and Ardaska was on the way between the 'erub and Tibe'in.');">⁵⁷</span> and R'Meir ordered him to remain within his four cubits?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef.. 'Er. VI; from which, however, the phrase 'to Tibe'in' is absent. Now since R. Meir did not allow the man to move beyond his four cubits (cf. infra 41a) it is obvious that he regarded, an 'erub of onions as ineffective. An objection against R. Simeon R. Eleazar.');">⁵⁸</span> - This is no difficulty, since one ruling deals<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'that', R. Meir's.');">⁵⁹</span> with the leaves while the other refers to the bulbs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'while the former are unfit for human consumption the latter are quite fit and consequently admissible as an 'erub.');">⁶⁰</span> For it was taught: 'If a man ate an onion and [was found] dead early [on the following morning] there is no need to ask what was the cause of his death', and in connection with this Samuel stated: This was taught in respect of the leaves only but against [the eating of] the bulbs there call be no objection;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'we have not (any objection) against it',');">⁶¹</span> and even regarding the leaves this has been said only

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