Responsa for Eruvin 126:12
אתו אמרו ליה לאביי אמר להו זילו בטילו רשותייכו לגבי חד הוה ליה יחיד במקום נכרי ויחיד במקום נכרי לא אסר
R'Berona stated in the name of Rab: Concerning the man who sleeps in a room<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'curtain', a curtained enclosure'.');"><sup>20</sup></span> in which husband and wife rest Scripture says: The women of My people ye cast out from their pleasant houses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Micah II, 9.');"><sup>21</sup></span>
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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