Quoting%20commentary for Eruvin 130:21

רבי חנינא בר יוסף אמר נשכור ור' אסי אמר לא נשכור אמר להו ר' חייא בר אבא נסמוך על דברי זקן ונשכור אתו שיילו ליה לרבי יוחנן אמר להן

R'Hanina<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. 'Rabbah'.');">⁵²</span> B'Joseph, R'Hiyya B'Abba and K. Assi once happened to come to a certain inn whither<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After they had duly prepared their 'erub on the Sabbath eve.');">⁵³</span> a heathen, the owner of the inn, had returned on the Sabbath.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' No question would have arisen if he had not returned since a heathen's right in a courtyard is disregarded in his absence in the case of 'erub. (Cf. R. Judah's ruling supra 86a) .');">⁵⁴</span> 'Is it permissible',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what is it?'');">⁵⁵</span> they discoursed, 'to rent from him his share? Is the law of renting like that of the preparation of an 'erub,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'is one who rents like one who prepares an 'erub'.');">⁵⁶</span> so that as an 'erub must be prepared while it is yet day,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the Sabbath eve.');">⁵⁷</span> must renting take place while it is yet day;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the Sabbath eve.');">⁵⁷</span> or is the law of renting like tha of the renunciation of one's domain, so that as the right to one's domain may be renounced even on the Sabbath<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 69b.');">⁵⁸</span> so may renting also take place on the Sabbath? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And consequently one of them at least in whose favour all the others would renounce their rights could rent the heathen's share and thus be entitled to the unrestricted use of the courtyard. [This is not treated as a commercial transaction but as the presentation of a mere gift, since its vph sole object is to permit the movement of objects; Tosaf. 66a, s.v. ].');">⁵⁹</span> R'Hanina B'Joseph said: 'Let us rent it', while R'Assi said: 'Let us not rent it'.' Let us', said R'Hiyya B'Abba to them, 'rely on the words of the old man and rent it'. When they subsequently came to R'Johanan and submitted the question to him he told them:

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