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In accordance with whose opinion among the tanna’im does Rav’s halakha correspond? It is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, who said as a principle that the hand of a woman is like the hand of her husband. According to R' Meir, a slave has no independent right of acquisition, and anything
R' Zeira continues: And raise a contradiction from an unattributed Mishnah (Eiruvin 73b), which presumably follows the opinion of R' Meir: How does one merge the courtyards that open into an alleyway in order to permit its residents to carry on Shabbat from one courtyard to another in the same alley
R' Zeira states the contradiction: And if you say that a woman’s husband acquires anything given to her, the eiruv food has consequently not left the husband’s domain when he gives it to his wife, for anything she acquires belongs to him. Rather, it can be seen from here that R' Meir does not extend
Rava said in response: Even though R' Meir said that in general the hand of a woman is like the hand of her husband, in accordance with the ruling of Rav, R' Meir nevertheless concedes with regard to the merging of alleyways that since it is her aim to acquire the eiruv food for others from the han
Ravina raised an objection to Rav Ashi from the following baraita: These are the people who can acquire eiruv food on behalf of others: The eiruv food can be acquired by means of his adult son or daughter, and by means of his Hebrew slave or female slave. And these are the people who cannot acquire