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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XIII. TREATISE ERUBIN, Or, Thb Combination Of Places And Of Limits. Introduction. The word mp [erub] signifies commixture ; and is used here to express the means through which the extreme rigour of the Rabbinical enactment of mattf [the Sabbath-rest] may in some degree be alleviated; inasmuch, as by these means, places are combined together, which otherwise would be distinct and separate, so that, without erub, it would be unlawful to carry any thing from one of them to another. And the distance which [without erub] it is unlawful to exceed, becomes enlarged : and thus, by this commixture, or combination of places, an extension of immunities or privileges is obtained. The present Treatise contains regulations for the nmn 'Hip, the combining of courts ; also for J'Dinn a TIP, the combining of limits; and for ian any, the combining of streets, also called epnttf, junction.1 The combining of courts treats of the rules and regulations by the observance of which the various houses standing in one court, each of which houses forms a distinct private reshuth,2 are combined into one general reshuth. This is done, through all the householders in the court joining together in some article of food, which they 1 There is another commixture called rVu'an an;, combining of cookery; for which, vide Treatise Yom-tob. 3 Vide Introduction to Treatise Sabbath. deposit in a certain place ; by doing which they are, in law, considered to declare and proclaim the whole of the court, and all the dwellings therein to be one general and common abode for all its inmates ; who thereby become entitled to carry and convey from one house to another, within the limits of the court, on the day of rest. The combining of limits treats of the rules and regulations, by the observance of which ...