Does a publicly-owned city with two entrances (through which the public enters one and exits the other) require an exclusion (shiur) for a valid city eruv, even if it later became private property?
Synopsis
A publicly-owned city with two functional entrances requires excluding at least one courtyard and its house from the eruv partnership; this applies even if the city subsequently became private property.
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