The meal gives a person a 2000 cubit radius of travel from that site. A town, if it is within that radius, is not measured into the radius; the 2000 cubits pick up on the other side of town as though the town had no length: Eruvin 60a-61b
Considering the four cubits around the meal to be like a private, walled-in area: Eruvin 32b, 35a, 52a
The Participants
May someone put out a meal on behalf of another person, without actually transferring ownership of the meal to him: Eruvin 80a, 82a
What happens if someone sets out the meal for his whole town, but a resident doesn't decide to use it, or doesn't know about it, until after Shabbat begins: Eruvin 82a
How old a child cannot be considered automatically included in his mother's meal: Eruvin 82a
What happens if a child's father sets up a meal on one side of town, and his mother sets up a meal on the other side of town: Eruvin 82a-b
Does the person for whom the Techum is extended need to know that this is being done for him, or may the benefit be earned on his behalf by someone else: Eruvin 46b, 80b, 81a-b, 82a, 95a
Setting up the meal which extends the limit for travel on Shabbat [Techum], and deciding retroactively who will be the participants in the meal, and for what time frame it will be used: Eruvin 37b
Setting up the meal for one's children, who are minors or adults, with or without their knowledge: Eruvin 82b
Setting up the meal for one's Jewish or Gentile eved, with or without his knowledge: Eruvin 82b
Setting up the meal for one's wife, with or without her knowledge: Eruvin 82b
Whether one is permitted to set up a Techum-extension if his goal is to leave the Techum for a non-Mitzvah purpose: Eruvin 31a, 82a
Having a trained monkey or elephant take the meal to its spot: Eruvin 31b
Having a minor place the meal in its spot: Eruvin 31b
Having a mentally incompetent person place the meal in its spot: Eruvin 31b
Having a deaf and mute person place the meal in its spot: Eruvin 31b
Having a person who doesn't accept the validity of this Mitzvah place the meal in its spot: Eruvin 31b
Having a Kuti place the meal in its spot: Eruvin 31b
The act of setting out the meal
Wording to use when setting out the meal for one's whole town: Eruvin 82a
How to make this arrangement for a holiday which is followed by a Shabbat: Eruvin 33b-34a, 38a-39a
How to make this arrangement for two days of Rosh HaShanah [where the first day is actually Day 30 of Elul]: Eruvin 39a, 39a-b
Extending the Techum for Yom Kippur: Eruvin 30a-b
Status of the meal during the "Bein HaShemashot" period at the start of Shabbat: Eruvin 36a-b
Using a meal which one will first be allowed to eat dusk: Eruvin 36a, 38b
Requiring that a person place all of his utensils at the edge of the Techum, in addition to the meal: Eruvin 30b
Requiring that the meal be permissible for the person using it, from before Shabbat begins: Eruvin 36a-b, 38b
The location of the meal
Validity of a meal which is placed within 70 2/3 cubits of the town: Eruvin 60a, 60b
Does the meal actually have to be placed at the end of the Techum, or does the mere capacity for such a placement suffice: Eruvin 33b-34a
Whether the Meal need be accessible to the individual using it: Eruvin 32b-34a; Tos. Pesachim 23a #2
Keeping the meal in a place with an area of, at minimum, four square handbreadths: Eruvin 33b
Keeping the Meal in a tree: Shabbat 155a; Eruvin 32b-34a
What happens if one places the meal in a cabinet, and loses the key: Eruvin 34b-35a
Keeping the Meal on a pole which is not connected to the ground: Eruvin 34b
Keeping the meal in a pit: Eruvin 32b, 34a-b
Keeping the meal in a deserted town: Eruvin 61b
Keeping the meal in a place which is unfit for mass dwelling: Eruvin 61b
Keeping the meal in a cemetery, for a Kohen: Eruvin 26b-27a, 30b-31a
Keeping the meal in a field in which a grave has been lost [Beit haPeras], for a Kohen: Eruvin 26b-27a, 30b-31a
Special Cases
What happens if a person from a small town puts his Meal in a neighboring large town, or the reverse, where the towns are within 2000 cubits of each other but the large town is broader than that distance: Eruvin 60b-61a, 61a
What happens if a person intended to go to a certain location, establishing his location there for Shabbat, and had an opportunity to set out a meal, and didn't do so: Eruvin 52a-b
Setting out two meals in two sites, and making a conditional declaration [Bereirah] accepting one or the other based on certain circumstances: Eruvin 36b-38a; Yoma 56b
What happens if a person sets up two meals in two directions, either because he thought this was valid or because he asked two people to set up meals for him: Eruvin 50b
What if a person is more than 2000 cubits from his Eruv meal when Shabbat begins, and is within his town's Techum: Eruvin 60a-b
How we handle a case of doubt regarding the validity of this meal: Eruvin 35a-36b, 46b, 52b
What happens if the meal leaves the Techum before/after Shabbat begins: Eruvin 35a
What happens if the meal becomes inaccessible before/after Shabbat begins: Eruvin 35a
What happens if the use of the meal becomes forbidden before/after Shabbat begins: Eruvin 35a
What happens if the meal is used for a number of weeks, and at some point shrinks beneath the minimum size: Eruvin 46b, 80b
