Study Eruvin folio 66A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
You acted well when you rented. The rabbis of Neharde’a wondered at this teaching: Did R' Yoḥanan actually say this? Didn’t R' Yoḥanan say just the opposite: Renting from a non-Jew is like establishing an eiruv? What, is he not to be understood as imposing a stringency: Just as one who establishes
The Talmud rejects this argument: No, his statement was intended as a leniency: Just as one who establishes an eiruv may do so even with less than the value of a peruta, so too, one who rents a non-Jew’s property may rent it for less than the value of a peruta. And just as the one who establishes a
And similarly, just as with regard to one who establishes an eiruv, the halakha is that if 5 people live in the same courtyard, one of them may establish an eiruv with the residents of a different courtyard on behalf of them all, so too, with regard to one who rents a non-Jew’s property; if 5 peopl
R' Elazar wondered at R' Yoḥanan’s ruling that the rabbis had acted well when they rented the non-Jew’s property on Shabbat and then they renounced their rights to that one, so that at least it would be permitted to use the courtyard. R' Zeira said: What was the reason for R' Elazar’s wonder? Rav Sh
As Shmuel said: With regard to any place where the residents render it prohibited for each other to carry but where they may establish a joint eiruv if they so desire, in order to permit carrying, each may renounce his property rights for the other if they failed to establish an eiruv before Shabba