Related%20passage for Eruvin 159:25

לימא מסייע ליה כופין אותו לעשות לחי וקורה למבוי

This explanation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That Samuel agrees that a wife may not prepare an 'erub where her husband imposes no restrictions.');">⁵³</span> may also be supported by a process of reasoning, since a contradiction would otherwise arise between two rulings of Samuel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'for if so, a difficulty of Samuel (arises) on that of Samuel'.');">⁵⁴</span> For Samuel ruled: 'If one of the residents of an alley, who usually joins the other residents in shittuf refused to join then, the residents may<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' enable them to arrange a shittuf for their alley.');">⁵⁵</span> enter his house and collect his contribution to the shittuf by force', [from which<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the qualification 'who usually joins' was added.');">⁵⁶</span> it follows that this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That shittuf may be arranged without a resident's knowledge or consent.');">⁵⁷</span> applies only to] one who usually [joins his neighbours in the shittuf]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. one who imposed restrictions upon them.');">⁵⁸</span> but not to one who did not.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, therefore, a distinction is drawn between a resident who imposes restrictions and one who does not, this ruling of Samuel may well be reconciled with the one cited in his name by Rab Judah. If, however, no such distinction is drawn and no emphasis is laid on 'usually joins', a contradiction would arise between the two rulings of Samuel himself.');">⁵⁹</span> This is conclusive. May it be suggested that the following provides support to his view:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That coercion may be used in the matter of shittuf.');">⁶⁰</span> A resident may be compelled to provide a side-post and a cross-beam for an alley?

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