Symmetry in the Babylonian Talmud: A Short Study of the Sugya in Eruvin 3a-b

Unpublished article The sugya examined here is that of Eruvin 3a-b. There is no parallel sugya anywhere else in the Talmud yet a close study demonstrates that the treatment is typical of the contrived arrangement of the material by the final editors of the Babylonian Talmud.[1] The rules as stated in the Mishnah (Eruvin 1:…