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כַּמָּה הוּא שִׁעוּרוֹ, מְזוֹן שְׁתֵּי סְעוּדוֹת לְכָל אֶחָד. מְזוֹנוֹ לְחֹל וְלֹא לְשַׁבָּת, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי מֵאִיר. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, לְשַׁבָּת וְלֹא לְחֹל. וְזֶה וָזֶה מִתְכַּוְּנִין לְהָקֵל. רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן בְּרוֹקָה אוֹמֵר, מִכִּכָּר בְּפֻנְדְּיוֹן, מֵאַרְבַּע סְאִין בְּסֶלַע. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, שְׁתֵּי יָדוֹת לְכִכָּר מִשָּׁלֹשׁ לְקָב. חֶצְיָהּ לְבַיִת הַמְנֻגָּע, וַחֲצִי חֶצְיָהּ לִפְסֹל אֶת הַגְּוִיָּה:

What is the (required) amount (for a tchum eruv)? Enough for two meals for each one (participating in the eruv) [Since he acquires habitation there, he must place there the food he needs for Shabbath.], his food for a weekday and not for Shabbath. These are the words of R. Meir. R. Yehudah says: For Shabbath and not for a weekday. And both (R. Meir and R. Yehudah) intend to be lenient (in their ruling). [R. Meir holds that on Shabbath one eats more, for the food is tastier. And R. Yehudah holds that since on Shabbath one eats three meals, he does not eat very much at each meal, so that two weekday meals are more than two Sabbath meals.] R. Yochanan b. B'roka says: A loaf for a pundion, four sa'ah for a sela [i.e., a loaf bought for a pundion when four sa'ah of wheat are sold for a sela. Four sa'ah are twenty-four kavin, and a sela is twenty-four ma'ah, that there is a kav to each ma'ah. A ma'ah is two pundionin — so that a loaf sold in the market for a pundion is half a kav. And the shopkeeper takes half as a wage for baking and grinding, so that a loaf bought from a shopkeeper for a pundion is a quarter of a kav, which are six eggs, a kav being twenty-four eggs. And this is the amount of the two meals (required) for the eruv according to R. Yochanan b. B'roka. The halachah is in accordance with him.] R. Shimon says: Two-thirds of a loaf of three to a kav. [He reduces the amount, saying that two-thirds of a loaf of three loaves to a kav suffices for an eruv. A whole loaf of eight eggs is one-third of a kav. Two-thirds of that — five and a third eggs — is two meals.] Half for a house with a plague-spot. [This is an anonymous Mishnah and is to be understood thus: Half of a complete loaf, according to the estimate of both (R. Yochanan b. B'roka and R. Shimon) is the amount for (the criterion of) "abiding" in a house with a plague-spot. For one who enters a house with a leprous plague-spot, though he becomes unclean immediately, is not required to wash his clothing until he "abides" there long enough to eat, "long enough to eat" being understood as long enough to eat half a loaf. According to R. Yochanan b. B'roka, who says that a whole loaf is a quarter of a kav, which is six eggs, half of that, three eggs, is the "pras" (half a loaf) in all of the Talmud. And according to R. Shimon, who says that a whole loaf is a third of a kav, which is eight eggs, half of that, four eggs, is the "pras" of all the Talmud. And even though R. Shimon holds that a whole loaf contains three meals (two-thirds of a loaf constituting two meals according to R. Shimon), that is in respect to eruv, where the intent was to be lenient, so that two full meals were not required. But in all other places R. Shimon holds that a meal is not less than half a loaf of a third of a kav, the eating of this half-loaf, four eggs, being the criterion.] Half of a half to render the body unfit. [If one eats a half pras of unclean foods, his body becomes unclean by rabbinical ordinance vis-à-vis the eating of terumah. And a half pras is an egg and a half according to R. Yochanan b. B'roka and two eggs according to R. Shimon.]

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