Eruvin 60a

עירובין ס׳ ע״א

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Topic

Partitions and ladders between a מרפסת and a חצר, the שיור left out of a city's עירוב, and a new משנה on placing a עירוב for walking on שבת

Overview

The amud opens by finishing a ברייתא about a מרפסת and a חצר that did not make an עירוב. The גמרא deflects it by explaining that the case is a low מרפסת, fenced except for an opening of up to ten אמות, which a small partition cuts off. רב יהודה in the name of שמואל rules that a wall lined with ladders still counts as a מחיצה. רב ברונא challenges this from another statement of שמואל, and the same answer resolves it. Next comes the story of אביי making an עירוב for קקונאי, where he goes back and forth on whether the שיור (the section left out of a city's עירוב) must be a place that could have joined. He finally learns from פומבדיתא that it need not. The גמרא then explains the משנה's measure 'like חדשה', the views of רבי שמעון and רבי יצחק on the size of the שיור, and אביי's lesson that learning is not just a song. Finally a new משנה begins about a person whose house and עירוב lie in opposite directions, and about where an עירוב may be placed. That last case continues on the next amud.

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The steps (34)

1. ChallengeEnd of רב נחמן's balcony ruling (in שמואל's name) used as a challenge
2. ResolutionThe balcony is less than ten טפחים high
3. ChallengeThen why would a partition help?
4. ResolutionA balcony fenced except for an opening of up to ten אמות
5. StatementA wall lined with ladders is still a partition
6. Challengeרב ברונא challenges שמואל's ladder ruling from another statement of שמואל
7. ResolutionThe balcony is less than ten handbreadths high
8. ChallengeThen why would a small partition help?
9. ResolutionThe balcony is fenced except for an opening of up to ten cubits
10. StatementThe people of קקונאי ask רב יוסף for someone to make their עירוב
11. Statementאביי chooses the river-facing houses as the left-out section
12. Rejectionאביי retracts: the left-out section must be able to join
13. Resolutionאביי makes windows so the houses can serve as the left-out section
14. Rejectionאביי retracts: windows are not needed, based on מחוזא
15. Rejectionאביי retracts again: מחוזא is different, so windows are needed
16. Proofאביי's final view: no windows needed, based on the straw storehouse
17. Conclusionאביי understands his teacher's warning
18. StatementThe משנה's rule: leave out an area like the city of חדשה
19. StatementWhat the city of חדשה was
20. QuestionDid חדשה itself need a left-out section?
21. ResponseEach city served as the other's left-out section
22. QuestionThe real question: a small city that stands alone
23. Responseרב הונא and רב יהודה disagree
24. Statementרב rules like רבי שמעון
25. Statementרבי יצחק: even a much smaller area is enough
26. ChallengeCan a courtyard alone count?
27. ResolutionCorrected wording: one house in one courtyard
28. Questionאביי asks about the source of רבי יצחק's ruling
29. Challengeרב יוסף asks what difference it makes
30. Resolutionאביי explains that learning must be understood
31. Statementמשנה: house within 2000, עירוב farther
32. Statementמשנה: עירוב within 2000, house farther
33. Statementמשנה: an עירוב in the city outskirts does nothing
34. StatementSetting up the case of an עירוב placed just outside the city boundary