Chapter 94 – Inter-Community of Courts

94.1) Two or more Jews sharing one court must establish an inter-community of court and not carry anything between the two houses.

94.2) Tenants with two courts may put in a door between their courts and carry items in their own designated court.

94.3) Rules for various types of courts and what is permitted of the tenants are specified in this rule.

94.4) A balcony is considered an inner court.

94.5) A shared vestibule does not allow either tenant to carry anything in the vestibule.

94.6) Tenants may establish an eruv (inter-community court). Details of how to do that are listed here.

94.7) The maker of the eruv should involve a third party in the granting of propriety to the tenants involved.

94.8) The legal size of the eruv is determined by the number of tenants and is specified here.

94.9) Take care not to make the eruv with food designated for the Sabbath.

94.10) Make the eruv where all tenants may enter at twilight on Friday.

94.11) The eruv should be established every Friday and the loaf of bread used eaten on the Sabbath.

94.12) Do not make an eruv on a festival.

94.13) Your eating place is your legal residence in regards to an eruv.

94.14) A transient in a court does not change the establishment of an eruv.

94.15) If you live in the same court as a non-Jew, you are not restricted by the non-Jew from carrying items from the house to the court or the court to the house.

94.16) If a non-Jew lives in another court but uses the same exit as Jews, the same rules apply.

94.17) If a Jew rents to a non-Jew, he is not restricted by the non-Jew.

94.18) A Jew may rent the dwelling of a non-Jew to allow him to carry into the court.

94.19) A dwelling may be rented from a non-Jew’s wife or a servant.

94.20) The dwelling is considered rented as long as the non-Jew does not lift the tenancy.

94.21) You must make a new eruv (inter-community court) when the lease terminates or a new one is made.

94.22) If you cannot rent the place from the non-Jew, you may borrow it for the purpose of depositing some object there.

94.23) Someone who profanes the Sabbath in public is regarded as a non-Jew and their dwellings must be hired from them.

94.24) Some communities establish an eruv between all thoroughfares and streets to be able to carry things throughout the community.

94.25) Eruv’s should be placed in dwellings not synagogues.

94.26) If a city’s eruv becomes defective, those in properly partitioned sections may continue to carry things for the entirety of the Sabbath.

94.27) If a festival occurs on a Friday, and the eruv becomes defective, you may repair it.