Related%20passage for Eruvin 7:5

מַתְבֵּן שֶׁבֵּין שְׁתֵּי חֲצֵרוֹת, גָּבוֹהַּ עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, מְעָרְבִין שְׁנַיִם וְאֵין מְעָרְבִין אֶחָד. אֵלּוּ מַאֲכִילִין מִכָּאן וְאֵלּוּ מַאֲכִילִין מִכָּאן. נִתְמַעֵט הַתֶּבֶן מֵעֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, מְעָרְבִין אֶחָד וְאֵין מְעָרְבִין שְׁנָיִם:

A stack of straw [running the entire breadth] between two courtyards, ten tefachim high — two eruvin are made and not one. These eat form here and those eat from there. [i.e., They allow their beasts to eat of the straw and need not fear lest the stack descend to less than ten tefachim and it become one domain, which they forbid to each other, and they continue to carry in the courtyard without being aware of it. This is not to be feared, for even if it does descend, if the reduction does not extend beyond ten cubits, they do not forbid each other. For ten cubits is an entrance (see 7:2), and a beast does not consume that much in one Shabbath.] If the straw (stack) descended below ten tefachim [along the length of the entire courtyard, or beyond ten cubits], one eruv is made and not two [(if it descended thus during the week, before Shabbath)].

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