Study Eruvin folio 59A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Talmud: The Talmud asks: Does this mean that in a place where he extended the limit, yes, the surveyor’s measurements are accepted, but in a place where he reduced the limit, no, his measurements are not accepted? If his extended measurement is accepted, his shortened measurement should certainly
We learned in the Mishnah: If the surveyor extended the limit for one and reduced it for another, one accepts the extended measurement. The Talmud asks: Why do I need this as well? This clause is the same as that previous clause in the Mishnah. The Talmud answers that this is what the Mishnah said:
Abaye said: The measurements of the surveyor who extended the limit are accepted only as long as he does not extend the limit more than the difference between the measure of the Shabbat limit of the city calculated as a diagonal line from the corner of the city and as calculated as a straight line
We learned in the Mishnah: As the rabbis did not state the matter, the laws of Shabbat limits, to be stringent, but rather to be lenient. The Talmud asks: Wasn’t the opposite taught in a baraita: The rabbis did not state the matter, the laws of Shabbat limits, to be lenient but rather to be strin
Ravina said that there is no contradiction between these two statements: The very institution of Shabbat limits was enacted not to be more lenient than Torah law, but rather to be stringent beyond Torah law. Nonetheless, since Shabbat limits are rabbinic law, the rabbis permitted certain lenienci