Quoting%20commentary for Eruvin 61:12

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> דמאי הא לא חזי ליה מיגו דאי בעי מפקר להו לנכסיה והוי עני וחזו ליה השתא נמי חזי ליה דתנן מאכילין את העניים דמאי

WITH FIRST TITHE FROM WHICH ITS TERUMAH<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">²⁷</span> HAD BEEN TAKEN AND WITH SECOND TITHE AND CONSECRATED [FOOD] THAT HAVE BEEN REDEEMED; AND PRIESTS [MAY PREPARE THEIR 'ERUB] WITH HALLAH.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. MS.M. adds: 'and terumah'.');">²⁸</span> [IT MAY] NOT [BE PREPARED], HOWEVER, WITH TEBEL,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">²⁷</span> NOR WITH FIRST TITHE THE TERUMAH FROM WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN, NOR WITH SECOND TITHE OR CONSECRATED [FOOD] THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>DEMAI, surely is not fit for him!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. for the man for whom it is prepared. And since our Mishnah allows it nevertheless to be used for an 'erub, does not an objection arise htns against Symmachus (cf. Tosaf. s.v. a.l.) who laid down that an 'erub must consist of food which the man for whom it is prepared is able to eat?');">²⁹</span> - Since he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Any man for whom it is prepared.');">³⁰</span> could, if he wished, declare his estate to be hefker,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">³¹</span> and thereby become a poor man when it would be fit for him, it is now also deemed to be fit for him. For we learned: It is permitted to feed poor men

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