Eruvin 86a

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Topic

Honoring the wealthy, the landlord's hold through stored items, a resident away for שבת, and the partition in a shared cistern

Overview

This amud opens at the end of a story. רבי gives honor to visitors according to their wealth. רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי protests that בן בוניס, whose father owns a thousand ships and a thousand towns, is the richer one. The גמרא explains that רבי and רבי עקיבא honored the wealthy, based on רבא בר מרי's reading of a פסוק in תהלים. Back in הלכה, a landlord who stores a מוקצה item, like a plough pin, in his tenant's space keeps a real hold there, so the tenant does not forbid the courtyard. A new משנה asks whether someone who leaves home for שבת still forbids the courtyard: רבי מאיר, רבי יהודה, רבי יוסי and רבי שמעון give four views. רב rules like רבי שמעון, but only when the man went to his daughter's house, not his son's. A second משנה deals with a cistern shared by two courtyards, which needs a ten-טפחים partition. The גמרא then debates what 'below' and 'above' mean, and a new challenge from a beam in a ruin begins that finishes on the next amud.

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The steps (24)

1. Statementרבי calls for honor for a very wealthy visitor
2. Statementרבי ישמעאל describes the father's enormous wealth
3. Statementרבי says the boy should dress to match his wealth
4. ConclusionWhy רבי and רבי עקיבא honored the wealthy
5. StatementA plough pin is the example of the landlord's real hold
6. ProofA ברייתא draws the line at whether the item may be moved
7. ProofA ברייתא supports the rule about non-movable items
8. StatementNew משנה: leaving home for שבת, and רבי מאיר says he still forbids
9. Statementרבי יהודה says the absent resident does not forbid
10. Statementרבי יוסי splits it: a נכרי forbids, a Jew does not
11. Statementרבי שמעון: even in the same town, a Jew who left does not forbid
12. Statementרב rules like רבי שמעון
13. StatementOnly a daughter's house, not a son's
14. ProofA folk saying about the dog
15. StatementA cistern between two courtyards
16. Statementבית שמאי and בית הלל on where the partition goes
17. Statementרבי יהודה: the wall above is enough
18. Statementרב הונא explains 'below' and 'above'
19. Statementרב יהודה: measured from the water
20. ChallengeWon't the water mix even with a partition below the water?
21. ResolutionThe reeds must stick out a טפח above the water
22. ChallengeWon't the water mix even with a partition above the water?
23. ResolutionThe reeds must dip a טפח into the water
24. ChallengeOpening a third challenge from the beam in a ruin