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Therefore, it is only with regard to a pauper, who does not have food for two meals, that the rabbis were lenient and permitted him to establish residence merely by saying: My residence is in my current location. However, with regard to a wealthy person in his own house who has bread, no, they di
And R' Yehuda maintains: The primary ordinance of eiruv is by foot, i.e., by going and stating that he is establishing his residence in that location, and therefore it applies to both a pauper and a wealthy person. However, with regard a case when the person said: My residence is in such-and-such
And as for the Mishnah’s statement: And this is what the rabbis meant when they said that a pauper can establish an eiruv with his feet, who, which Sage, is teaching it? It is R' Meir. And to which clause of the Mishnah is it referring? It refers to the previous statement: If he is not familiar w
Rav Ḥisda, however, disagreed with Rav Naḥman and said: The dispute between R' Meir and R' Yehuda in the Mishnah is with regard to a person who said: My residence is in such-and-such place, in which case his residence is neither acquired by foot nor with bread. As R' Meir maintains: A pauper, yes
And as for the Mishnah’s statement: And this is what the rabbis meant when they said that a pauper can establish an eiruv by foot, who is teaching it? It is R' Meir. And to which clause of the Mishnah is it referring? It is referring to this clause: One who was coming along the way on Friday, and