Chapter 95 – Inter-community Boundaries
95.1) Do not walk more than 3,000 feet on a Sabbath or a festival from your abode.
95.2) You may traverse the distance around a city wall on the Sabbath.
95.3) The Sabbath boundary begins with the walls of an enclosure.
95.4) Two cities with walls close together may add the distance between them.
95.5) Be careful who you entrust with the measuring of Sabbath boundaries.
95.6) If you need to walk beyond the Sabbath boundary, create an eruv (inter-community court) to accommodate the discrepancy.
95.7) Create the eruv with bread sufficient for two meals and a relish and pronounce the benediction, “Blessed art Thou, O Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who hath sanctified us by his commandments, and has commanded us concerning the precept of the eruv.”
95.8) You may delegate another to place the eruv and pronounce the benediction.
95.9) You may make one eruv to accommodate many people as long as sufficient food is used.
95.10) Place the eruv in a place so as not to violate the law of the Torah.
95.11) If you place the eruv in the middle of a city, the entire city is considered a depository of it.
95.12) If the city is surrounded by walls, it is not considered to be a depository in its entirety.
95.13) The law of 95.12 applies to a person who deposits an eruv near the end of 2,000 cubits outside the city.
95.14) You may make an eruv for boundaries only to perform a religious act.
95.15 ) You may not establish an eruv for boundaries on the Sabbath.
95.16) Your property and livestock are governed by the same laws that restrict your own person.
95.17) A non-Jew may pluck fruit on the Sabbath and a Jew eat it.
95.18) You may not have boundaries above 10 hand-breaths above ground.