Responsa for Eruvin 126:15

אזל רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע אמרה לשמעתא קמיה דרבא אמר ליה

until that time?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' No one, of course, besides himself and his wife. If the husband and wife are thus trusted by the Torah to be fully competent to look after their moral Interests, there could not be much advantage in having an occasional intruder.');">²⁵</span> There was a certain alley in which Lahman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. 'Haman' (R. Han. cf. MS.M.) .');">²⁶</span> B'Ristak<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A heathen.');">²⁷</span> lived.' Will you let us<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the Sabbath.');">²⁸</span> your domain?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His right to the use of the alley.');">²⁹</span> said the other residents to him; but he would not let it to them. So they went to Abaye and reported the matter to him.' Renounce', he advised them, 'your respective domains<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. mut. mut.');">³⁰</span> in favour of one resident so that he would be in the position of one individual living in the same place with a heathen, and wherever one individual lives in the same place with a heathen the latter imposes no restrictions upon the former'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a result of the arrangement the residents would be enabled to move (a) within the alley any objects that rested in it at the time the Sabbath had set in and (b) objects from the house of the individual, in favour of whom they had renounced their rights, into the alley and from the alley into his house. In the absence of the arrangement they would have been deprived even of these limited privileges (cf. Shah. 130b) . The prohibition, however, to move objects from their own houses into the alley and vice versa would still remain in force (cf. infra 69b) .');">³¹</span> 'Is not the only reason',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why a heathen imposes no restrictions on an individual Israelite that lives with him in the same courtyard or alley.');">³²</span> he was asked,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By one of the scholars. Cur. edd., 'they said to him', is wanting from MS.M.');">³³</span> 'that it is not usual for one Israelite and one heathen to live together? And is it a fact that these did live together? ' - 'The renunciation of' private domains in favour of one resident', he replied: 'is an unusual occurrence, and the Rabbis enacted no prohibitory measures against any occurrence that is unusual'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the effectiveness of the suggested arrangement.');">³⁴</span> R'Huna son of R'Joshua proceeded to report this ruling<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of Abaye.');">³⁵</span> to Raba when the latter remarked:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'said to him'.');">³⁶</span>

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