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provided that the one does not carry anything from his 4-cubit limit into that of his fellow.
With regard to a case where there were 3 people in this situation, and certain parts of the 4 cubits of the middle one were subsumed within the respective limits of each of the others, so that he shared a certain area with each of them, he is permitted to eat with either of them, and they are both
R' Shimon said: To what is this comparable? It is like 3 courtyards that open into one another, and also open into a public domain. If the two outer courtyards established an eiruv with the middle one, the middle one is permitted to carry to the two outer ones, and they are permitted to carry to
Talmud: Rava raised a dilemma: What does R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri hold? Does he hold that ownerless objects acquire residence for Shabbat, i.e., even an article that does not belong to anyone acquires residence at the onset of Shabbat and can therefore be carried 2,000 cubits in each direction?
And according to this understanding, R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri should by right have disagreed with the Rabbis even about utensils that were left in the field, i.e., that according to the opinion of R' Yoḥanan ben Nuri, ownerless utensils can be moved 2,000 cubits in each direction. And the reason that the