יד ואם מיצעו עליו את התחום לא יזוז ממקומו
14 outside his permitted limit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra note 1.');"><sup>34</sup></span> hence, if he indicated four cubits [on the near side of the tree] he may proceed thither, otherwise he may not.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The tree spoken of in our Mishnah, however, proceeding to which is according to Samuel permitted, is one whose root and branches were within the two thousand and four cubits from the place where the man stood when the Sabbath had set in.');"><sup>35</sup></span> 'It was taught in agreement with Samuel': If a man made a mistake and prepared 'erubs in two opposite directions, believing that it is permitted to provide 'erubs in two opposite directions, or if he said to his servants, 'Go and prepare an 'erub for me' and one prepared for him an 'erub in a northerly direction and the other prepared one for him in a southerly direction, he may proceed northwards as far as the limit of his southern 'erub and southwards as far as the limit of his northern 'erub.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the two 'erubs, for instance, were deposited respectively at distances of a thousand cubits from the man's home, the northern one alone should have enabled him to proceed two thousand cubits in all directions including two thousand cubits in the direction of his home terminating at a distance of a thousand cubits from its southern side. The southern 'erub alone should have entitled him to similar privileges including two thousand in a northerly direction terminating at a distance of a thousand from the northern side of his house. As it is uncertain which of his 'erubs is more effective than the other the restriction resulting from both are imposed upon him and he may not move beyond a thousand cubits from his house either in a northerly or in a southerly direction.');"><sup>36</sup></span>