p. 214 CHAPTER IX. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE COMBINING OF ROOFS ON SABBATH. MISHNA: All the roofs of a town are considered one private ground (although the houses underneath are occupied by several), provided there be not one roof ten hands higher or ten hands lower than the rest. Such is the dictum of R. Meir; the sages, however,
p. 198 CHAPTER VIII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE ERUBIN OF LIMITS. THE QUANTITY OF FOOD REQUIRED FOR SUCH ERUBIN, AND FURTHER REGULATIONS CONCERNING ERUBIN OF COURTS. MISHNA: How are the (legal) limits to be combined? A man places a cask (of wine) and says: "This is for all my townsmen or for all who go to the house of
p. 179 CHAPTER VII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE PREPARATION OF ERUBIN FOR COURTS SEPARATED BY APERTURES, WALLS, DITCHES, AND STRAW-RICKS. COMBINATION OF ERUBIN IN ALLEYS. MISHNA: If there be an aperture, four spans square, and less than ten spans high (from the ground), between two courts, the inmates of each court may prepare two separate Erubin; or if they
p. 145 CHAPTER VI. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE ERUBIN OF COURTS AND PARTNERSHIPS. MISHNA: To one who dwells in the same court with a Gentile, or with one who does not acknowledge the laws of Erub, the latter prove a bar (to his carrying in the court). R. Eliezer ben Jacob, however, said: "At no time can such a
p. 119 CHAPTER V. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE BOUNDARIES OF A TOWN AND THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE LEGAL LIMITS. MISHNA: How can the boundaries of a town be extended? If one house recede from the city wall and another project, or if a ruin recede or project, or if fragments of a wall ten spans high lie beyond the
p. 93 CHAPTER IV. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE OVERSTEPPING OF THE LEGAL LIMITS ON THE SABBATH, AND MEASUREMENTS OF THE SABBATH-DISTANCE. MISHNA: If foes, or an evil spirit (a fit of insanity?), caused one to go beyond the Sabbath limit, he after recovering his freedom must not move further than four ells; if the foes or the fit have
p. 62 CHAPTER III. REGULATIONS CONCERNING WHEREWITH AND WHERE AN ERUB MAY BE MADE. WHEREBY AN ERUB BECOMES INVALID. THE ERUB OF LIMITS, WITH ITS CONDITIONS. WHEN A FESTIVAL OR NEW YEAR PRECEDES THE SABBATH. MISHNA: The Erub may be effected with all kinds of victuals excepting water and salt. All kinds of victuals may be bought with
p. 40 CHAPTER II. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE USE OF A WELL AND A GARDEN ON THE SABBATH. MISHNA: Enclosures (partitions) must be made around wells. They must be made of four boards, placed at an angle (of forty-five degrees) at the corners of the well, so that the four boards appear like eight (see illustration). Such is the
p. 1 TRACT ERUBIN. CHAPTER I. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE WIDTH AND HEIGHT OF AN ERUB CONSTRUCTED IN STREETS INHABITED SOLELY BY ISRAELITES, AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ERUB BY A CARAVAN. MISHNA: If an entry 1 be higher than twenty ells, it should be lowered. R. Jehudah said: "This is not necessary." If it be wider than
The Babylonian Talmud Translated by MICHAEL L. RODKINSON Book 2 (Vols. III and IV) 1918 Tracts Erubin, Shekalim, Rosh Hashana Tract Erubin Tract Shekalim Tract Rosh Hashana Tract Erubin Volume III. Title Page Explanatory Remarks Contents Introduction to Tract Erubin Synopsis of Tract Erubin Chapter I: Size of Erubin Chapter II: Use of Wells and Gardens on the Sabbath Chapter III: Location of Erubin