Eruvin 101: The Walled City of Jerusalem Sleeps
Dedicated in memory of Lester Osband, Eliezer ben Avraham Nechemiah, Yardaena's grandfather a"h, whose yahrzheit is 2 Kislev. || A series of mishnayot checking the boundaries of what's allowed on Shabbat, ostensibly about carrying, but, it turns out, not only. To wit, a back door that is relatively makeshift, where opening the door fundamentally seems problematic in term of "building." Note how the Gemara elaborates beyond the mishnah here. Also: The story between R. Yehoshua and a heretic, and the puzzling, intriguing discussion of thorns, on literal and perhaps metaphorical levels. And -…
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