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Orach Chaim 408:1 When Can You Make Eruv Techumin?

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a new siman today, siman tov ches for halachos of eruv techumin. So, the question is this. First of all, an eruv techumin, is it a mitzvah to do it, is it allowed to do it, when can you do it? This is a situation where we know that you can go 2,000 amos beyond the edge of the city, and if you want to go for some reason, if your city is over here, and you want to make an eruv techumin, which means you go 2,000 amos or up to 2,000 amos to the edge of the city, that gives you a new techum, that's your new center point, and you can now go 2,000 amos point, and you can now go 2,000 amos beyond that. So, when can you do that? So, says the machaber, so what, is that interesting? Actually, begins with the Rama. Because look at look at the Rama, adds in a few words at the beginning, mutzla eruv techumin v'likri shvisa seifa techumin, you know, it's mutzla, which means l'chatchila, to make an eruv techumin and to be kein ish v'seifa techum. V'lochein, and therefore, and now begins the machaber, mi sheyotzei me'oyev eruv shabbos, someone who leaves sits in the city on erev shabbos v'niach sh'tei sudos rochok me'oyev techas techum, and he leaves some food a

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  1. 0:00a new siman today, siman tov ches for halachos of eruv techumin. So, the question is
  2. 2:06his mock and straight shoulders. To allow him to go 2,000 further the next day on
  3. 4:09can you get divorced? That's how it goes. I don't know I mean >> Yeah, but
  4. 6:11go up to 2,000 amos, but not more than 2,000 amos. It could be that your
  5. 8:14he does that before and then he goes back home before but he's actually where he
  6. 10:19we reckon it as four how so? He give an example. So, for example, his city
  7. 12:20next day. Perfect. How far can he go this way? So it depends. If let's say
  8. 14:24kol tza'am ad b'emtzah eiruv, but if the middah the 2,000 amah measure finishes in the
  9. 16:26What what does it say? Even though he can't go from his house he's got to
  10. 18:30also a different city and welcome color of the city but there's a lot of that's

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