Reference for Eruvin 160:19

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> בכל מערבין ומשתתפין חוץ מן המים ומן המלח דברי ר"א רבי יהושע אומר ככר הוא עירוב אפילו מאפה סאה והוא פרוסה אין מערבין בה ככר כאיסר והוא שלם מערבין בו:

MANY and a quantity of food [for two meals only suffices,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For all of them, however great' their number might be.');">⁵⁹</span> otherwise<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and if not', sc. if the number of the residents was not as much as eighteen.');">⁶⁰</span> they are regarded as FEW;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it is sufficient if each one contributes food of a size of a dried fig, though the total of the contributions this amounts to less than two meals.');">⁶¹</span> and that we were indirectly informed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By Rab Judah who gave the number eighteen instead of the fuller explanation.');">⁶²</span> that food for two meals consists of a quantity that is equal to the size of eighteen drie figs. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>WITH ALL KINDS [OF FOOD] MAY 'ERUB OR SHITTUF BE EFFECTED EXCEPT WITH WATER OR SALT; SO R'ELIEZER'R'JOSHUA RULED: A WHOLE LOAF OF BREAD IS A VALID 'ERUB. EVEN A BAKING OF ONE SE'AH, IF IT IS A BROKEN LOAF, MAY NOT BE USED FOR 'ERUB WHILE A LOAF OF THE SIZE OF AN ISSAR, PROVIDED IT IS WHOLE,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And there are as many loaves of this size as would suffice to supply bread of the size of a dried fig for each of the residents.');">⁶³</span> MAY BE USED FOR 'ERUB.

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