In Jewish halacha, the techum shabbat (Hebrew: תחום שבת, "Shabbat limit"), or simply techum, is a limited physical area in which a Jew is permitted to...
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an exempt area, including both Biblical and rabbinical prohibitions. Techum shabbat, the prohibition on traveling a certain distance outside one's dwelling...
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travel during Shabbat, and the law of techum shabbat puts limits on the distance one may travel beyond the city/town where one is spending Shabbat, regardless...
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Eruv techumin (category Laws of Shabbat)
Jews to travel on Shabbat or a Jewish holiday, without violating the prohibition of techum shabbat. They prepare food prior to Shabbat or the holiday on...
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Biblical mile (redirect from Tehūm Shabbat)
halachic laws. On Shabbat, one is not allowed to travel further than 1 biblical mile outside one's city; this law is known as techum shabbat. A procedure known...
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on holidays one may move freely within a radius of 2,000 cubits (see techum shabbat) the owner of lost property must bring witnesses to testify that he...
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Eruv (category Laws of Shabbat)
for the purpose of allowing activities which are normally prohibited on Shabbat (due to the prohibition of hotzaah mereshut lereshut), specifically: carrying...
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Holiday to prepare for Shabbat Eruv techumin ("mixing of borders"), which permits travel beyond the city boundary ("techum") on Shabbat EREV, a class of motor...
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streets of Jerusalem on a Yom Kippur which fell on Shabbat, and that he chose to overstep the techum. Both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmuds agree...
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it, or because the Shekhinah would have to be brought in from beyond the techum, or because it is considered similar to a marriage, and marriages are not...
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