R. Gamliel powiedział: Pewnego razu saduceusz mieszkał z nami w mavui (alejce) w Jerozolimie i (pewnego razu) ojciec powiedział do nas: „Pośpiesz się i zabierz wszystkie statki na mavui, zanim to zrobi i zabrania mu ty." [Nasza Miszna jest wadliwa. Oto, czego uczono: „Saduceusz jest jak bałwochwalca. R. Gamliel mówi: On nie jest jak bałwochwalca, a kiedyś saduceusz… a Ojciec powiedział do nas:„ Pośpieszcie się i róbcie, co trzeba, zanim wyjmie (jego statki) i zabrania ci tego '"—skąd widzimy, że jest jak Izraelita, który może zaprzeczyć swoim prawom. A ponieważ ten, kto neguje swoje prawa, a następnie wycofuje się (jego zaprzeczenie), czy to nieumyślnie, czy celowo zabrania (użytkowania) innym, R. Gamliel powiedział: Pospiesz się i rób, co trzeba, zanim wyjmie swoje statki na dziedziniec i przywróci prawa że zaprzeczył i tym samym zakazuje ci tego. Ale gdyby był jak bałwochwalca, który nie może zanegować swoich praw bez wynajmu, jak mógłby im tego zabronić po otrzymaniu czynszu?] R. Juda mówi: On powiedział inaczej, a mianowicie: "Pospiesz się i rób, co potrzebujesz w mavui przed tym (dzień) się skończy i jest wam to zabronione. " [tj. to nie jest to, co powiedział R. Gamliel, ponieważ trzyma saduceusza za bałwochwalcę, a ten epizod nie jest dowodem na to, że jest inaczej, bo to jest to, co powiedział: "Pośpiesz się i rób to, czego potrzebujesz w szabat wigilia, zanim się ściemni ”—Nie: „zanim wyjmie swoje naczynia”, jak mówisz, ale: „zanim skończy się dzień i jest ci to zabronione”. Halacha jest taka, że każdy Żyd, który publicznie profanuje Szabat, jest jak bałwochwalca i zabronione jest robienie z nim eruwu i nie może on negować swoich praw, ale muszą być od niego wynajmowane, ponieważ są wynajmowane od bałwochwalcy. A jeśli ktoś obserwuje Szabat w otwartej przestrzeni, nawet jeśli czasami bezcześci go w tajemnicy i nie uznaje instytucji eruwów, takich jak saduceusze w naszych czasach, nie wolno robić z nim eruwu, ale może on negować jego prawa bez ich wynajmowania (to, jeśli nie jest bałwochwalcą.)]
Bartenura on Mishnah Eruvin
מעשה בצדוקי – the Mishnah is deficient and it should be read as follows: A Sadducee is like an idolater. Rabban Gamaliel states that is he not like an idolater. “And it once happened with one Sadducee, etc. And Father said to us: Hurry up and fulfill all of your requirements before it (i.e., the eve of the Sabbath) departs and places restrictions upon you”; we learn from this that he is like a Jew/Israelite and is able to resign his possession and because he can resign his possession and go back and take it out, whether inadvertently or on purpose, he restricts us, as is mentioned further on. Because of this, Rabban Gamaliel states: “Hurry and perform your requirements before he removes his utensils to the courtyard and goes back and takes hold of his possessions that he cancelled and places restrictions upon you, but if he (i.e., the Sadducee) is like an idolater and an idolater is not able to resign his possessions until he rents it out, how is he able to prohibit you after he has rented it out and taken money?
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English Explanation of Mishnah Eruvin
Introduction
According to the Talmud, in this mishnah Rabban Gamaliel disagrees with the opinion in yesterday’s mishnah. There we learned that a Jew who doesn’t believe in the efficacy of eruvin causes the other Jews in his courtyard or alley to be prohibited from carrying, by making their eruv ineffective. According to the Talmud, while the non-Jew can annul his partnership in the courtyard or alley, and thereby let the other Jews eruv be effective, a Jew who doesn’t believe in eruvin, such as a Sadducee or Samaritan cannot do so. Rabban Gamaliel says that even a Sadducee can annul his share in the alley or courtyard. Our mishnah deals with one who has already made such an annulment. The question is, can his annulment be overturned by his actions?
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Bartenura on Mishnah Eruvin
ור"י אומר – Rabban Gamaliel did not say this, for Rabban Gamaliel holds that a Sadducee is always like an idolater. And this incident is not a proof for this is how Rabban Gamaliel spoke to them: “Hurry up and fulfill all of your requirements on the Eve of Shabbat before it gets dark, and not until he doesn’t remove his utensils as you have stated, but until the day hasn’t yet departed and it places restrictions upon you. And the legal decision is that any Jew who violates the Sabbath in public is like an idolater, and we don’t prepare an Eruv with him and he doesn’t resign possession (i.e., a legal fiction by which the carrying of objects on the Sabbath from one’s own place to one common to several persons, may be permitted) but we rent from him in the same manner that we rent from the idolater, and the person who observes the Sabbath in public, even though he might violate it in private and does not recognize the designation/concept of Eruv such as the Sadducees at this time, who observe the Sabbath but do not recognize the designation/concept of Eruv, we do not make an Eruv with him but he can resign possession and one doesn’t need to rent from him and he isn’t necessarily an idolater.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Eruvin
Rabban Gamaliel said: A Sadducee once lived with us in the same alley in Jerusalem and father told us: “Hurry up and carry out all vessels into the alley before he carries out his and thereby restricts you”. According to the explanation provided above, this Sadducee who lived in the same alley (!) as Rabban Gamaliel’s father, Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel, nullified his partial ownership in the alley such that the eruv of the Jews would be effective. (A rather nice Sadducee if he was a Samaritan, we could call him the “Good Samaritan”!). However, Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel holds that if afterwards, on Shabbat, the Sadducee uses the alley to carry out his things then he has reneged on his renunciation and he again owns a share of the alley. Therefore, the Jews must use the alley to carry on Shabbat, so that they own the alley before he does. Once they have demonstrated such ownership, even if he uses the alley, this does not make it prohibited for them to carry there.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Eruvin
Rabbi Judah said [the instruction was given] in different language: “Hurry up and perform all of your needs in the alley before he carries out his and thereby restricts you”. According to the Talmud, section one is Rabbi Meir’s version, of what Rabban Gamaliel said his father said. Rabbi Judah agrees with Rabban Gamaliel, that a Sadducee can renounce his ownership. However, he disagrees with Rabbi Meir concerning the precise language of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel’s statement. According to Rabbi Judah, even if the other Jews use the alley first, if the Sadducee then comes to use it, he will cause it to be prohibited for them to carry there. Therefore, the Jews must carry all of the things that they need to carry before the Sadducee uses the alley. Once he uses it, it is prohibited to them.
