Responsa for Eruvin 123:14
ואם יש שם ישראל אחד אוסר דברי רבי מאיר
[To revert to] the main text,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Quoted by Abaye supra q.v. notes.');"><sup>30</sup></span> A heathen's courtyard has the same status as a cattle-pen' and it is, therefore permitted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To an Israelite who was not one of the tenants of that courtyard but happened to visit any of the houses in it.');"><sup>31</sup></span> to carry things in and out, both from the courtyard into the houses and from the houses into the courtyard.
Shut min haShamayim
I also asked [in my dream] regarding an individual Jew living in a non-Jewish city surrounded by a wall, where the gates of the city are locked at night. Is this person allowed to carry on Shabbat within the city? For we have a tradition that the habitation of a non-Jew is not considered a habitation1for the definition of public space on Shabbat, cf. Eruvin 62a:4, and even though the rabbis decreed it nonetheless forbidden to carry on Shabbat among non-Jews, the decree was not made for individuals (Eruvin 63b:12). So too, regarding a Jew who lodges on Friday night in such a non-Jewish city, whether he is permitted to carry since it is surrounded by a wall and the gates are locked at night2This is the opinion of the Mordechai (Siman 507) in the name of Rashi, quoted in Beit Yosef Orach Chaim 382. See however Terumat Hadeshen 76, who says that this statement of the Mordechai was not present in the manuscripts in Austria. Is it nonetheless preferable to be stringent on this issue?
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