Eruvin 64a

עירובין ס״ד ע״א

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Topic

Making an עירוב with a גוי through his שכיר or לקיט; respect for Torah teachings; wine, הוראה and תפילה; keeping a גר's property

Overview

The amud opens in the middle of a discussion about a מבוי shared by Jews and a גוי. רבא knocks down a suggestion to let the Jews carry without an עירוב, and then each fix offered for it: a reminder עירוב, and a public announcement. His solution is that one Jew borrows a spot in the גוי's property and so becomes like the גוי's שכיר or לקיט. Following שמואל's ruling, such a worker may give the עירוב in the גוי's place, and רב יוסף adds that this leniency never becomes a stringency. רב נחמן praises that ruling of שמואל but calls a different one, about not ruling after a רביעית of wine, 'not excellent'. רבא rebukes him for grading Torah teachings, and רב נחמן takes it back. רבה בר רב הונא then rules on praying after drinking: a שתוי's prayer still counts after the fact, but a שיכור's prayer is תועבה. A story of two scholars parting at a river gives the test: whether he could speak before a king. It also gives a second teaching, that one who takes a גר's property should buy a ספר תורה with it. רב ששת's addition to that teaching continues on the next amud.

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The steps (20)

1. ChallengeThis would erase the idea of an עירוב from that alley
2. ResolutionThey make an עירוב anyway as a reminder
3. ChallengePeople will think an עירוב works even where a גוי lives
4. ResolutionWe announce that the עירוב is only a reminder
5. RejectionChildren won't understand an announcement
6. Conclusionרבא's solution: become like the gentile's worker
7. Proofשמואל: a hired worker can contribute the עירוב
8. QuestionWhat if there are five workers?
9. ResponseA leniency does not become a stringency
10. StatementBack to שמואל's ruling, which רב נחמן praises
11. Statementשמואל: someone who drank wine should not rule
12. Rejectionרב נחמן: this ruling is not excellent
13. Challengeרבא: do not rank Torah teachings
14. Conclusionרב נחמן takes it back
15. StatementPraying after drinking wine: two levels
16. QuestionWhat counts as having drunk, and what counts as drunk?
17. StatementTwo scholars part ways with words of Torah
18. ResponseThe test: can he speak before a king?
19. StatementKeeping a convert's property: buy a Torah scroll
20. Statementרב ששת begins to add to the teaching