Quoting%20commentary for Eruvin 146:18

גופא אמר רב אין מבוי ניתר בלחי וקורה

Rabbah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M., 'Raba'.');">⁴³</span> B'Hanan<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M., 'R. Hanan'; Bah, 'R. Hanan'.');">⁴⁴</span> demurred: Now then,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'but from now', since it is maintained that shittuf contributions must be carried 'in and out'.');">⁴⁵</span> would shittuf be equally invalid if one resident transferred to another the possession of some bread in his basket?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the purpose of shittuf.');">⁴⁶</span> And should you reply that [the law] is so indeed, [it could be retorted:] Did not Rab Judah, in fact, state in the name of Rab: If numbers of a party were dining<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'reclining'.');">⁴⁷</span> when the sanctity of the Sabbath day overtook them,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the Sabbath began while they were still at table and unable, therefore, to collect the necessary contributions for 'erub or shittuf.');">⁴⁸</span> they may rely upon the bread on the table to serve the purpose of 'erub or, as others say, that of shittuf; and in connection with this Rabbah observed that there is really no difference of opinion between them,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Those who react 'erub and those who read shittuf.');">⁴⁹</span> since the former refers to a party dining<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'reclining'.');">⁴⁷</span> in a house<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An 'erub is deposited in a house (cf. infra 85b) .');">⁵⁰</span> and the latter to one dining in a courtyard?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where a shittuf, but no 'erub may be deposited (infra I.e.) . This shows that there is no necessity for the contributions to shittuf to pass 'in and out through the doors etc.' How then could it be maintained that shittuf must pass 'in and our' through the doors of the courtyards that opened directly into the alley?');">⁵¹</span> - The fact is that Rab's reason<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For omitting the phrase OPENED INTO EACH OTHER.');">⁵²</span> this:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not the one previously suggested according to which shittuf must pass in and out etc.');">⁵³</span> he is of the opinion that unrestricted movement in an alley cannot be rendered permissible by means of a side-post or cross-beam unless houses and courtyards opened into it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. no less than two courtyards must open into the alley and no less than two houses must open into each courtyard. As a number of courtyards that opened into each other are regarded as one courtyard, the unrestricted use of the alley spoken of in our Mishnah could not have been effected if the courtyards that opened into each other.');">⁵⁴</span> [To turn to] the main text: Rab laid down: Unrestricted movement in an alley cannot be rendered permissible by means of a side-post or cross-beam

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