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#Who does the 600,000 include? | #Who does the 600,000 include? | ||
##It includes men, women, children, and non-Jews. | ##It includes men, women, children, and non-Jews. | ||
##It includes travelers and tourists. | ##It includes travelers and tourists.<ref>Rashi Eruvin 59a</ref> | ||
##It includes people in cars or trains, according to most poskim. | ##It includes people in cars or trains, according to most poskim.<ref>Although Yeshot Malko OC 27 holds that people in trains don't count towards the 600,000 because they are enclosed in a reshut hayachid, Rav Moshe Feinstein (1:139) rejects this completely.</ref> | ||
##It includes people in their houses, according to most poskim. Rav Moshe Feinstein is lenient not to include people in their houses and therefore arrives at a conclusion that a population of 3,000,000 is necessary for a reshut harabbim. | ##It includes people in their houses, according to most poskim. Rav Moshe Feinstein is lenient not to include people in their houses and therefore arrives at a conclusion that a population of 3,000,000 is necessary for a reshut harabbim.<Ref>Igrot Moshe OC 1:139</ref> | ||
#Where in the reshut harabbim are the 600,000? | #Where in the reshut harabbim are the 600,000? | ||
## Majority of achronim hold that as long as there are 600,000 people anywhere in the city every street in the city becomes a reshut harabbim. Some include even the population of the nearby cities that the city in question is open to. | ## Majority of achronim hold that as long as there are 600,000 people anywhere in the city every street in the city becomes a reshut harabbim. Some include even the population of the nearby cities that the city in question is open to.<ref>Rav Belsky in Shulchan Halevi. Yeshuot Malko OC 27 writes that shishim ribo includes everyone who is in the city. Though, he holds that for streets outside the city it is a reshut harabbim without shishim ribo.</ref> | ||
## Some achronim hold that only if there are 600,000 people in the area that the eruv encloses is it a reshut harabbim. | ## Some achronim hold that only if there are 600,000 people in the area that the eruv encloses is it a reshut harabbim.<ref>So it appears from Shevet Halevi 8:177(2)</ref> | ||
## Some achronim hold that only if there are 600,000 people on a single street that street is not a reshut harabbim. | ## Some achronim hold that only if there are 600,000 people on a single street that street is not a reshut harabbim.<ref>Arichat Shulchan Halevi n. 4 proves from Bet Meir 5b s.v. bishlama that shishim ribo is judged by every street individually.</ref> | ||
## Rav Moshe Feinstein holds that only if there are 600,000 people within an area that is 12x12 mil is it a reshut harabbim. | ## Rav Moshe Feinstein holds that only if there are 600,000 people within an area that is 12x12 mil is it a reshut harabbim.<ref>Igrot Moshe 1:139, 4:87</ref> | ||
#Over what period of what is 600,000 calculated? | #Over what period of what is 600,000 calculated? | ||
##Some achronim maintain that unless the 600,000 people are present over the course of one 24 hour day it is not a reshut harabbim. | ##Some achronim maintain that unless the 600,000 people are present over the course of one 24 hour day it is not a reshut harabbim. | ||
