Eiruvin 30a, b

Get ready to grab your Masechet -- 

here's some quick trivia from Eiruvin 30a and b:

On carrying a copse out of a home through a doorway: which doorway should we use? what if the corpse is very large? how might this impart ritual impurity?

On fasting: what counts as nourishing food?  are salt and water 'sustaining' food or 'nourishing' food? 

Something not funny but in the form of a joke: How many raw eggs does it take to make an eiruv?  Two, regardless of the person's size or health.  I warned you that it wasn't funny.

What's up with the sweet fruits of Genosar, the ones that are too big to fit in a three-se'a-basket, where Rabbi Yohanan can eat 300 of them and not be nourished?

What is the difference between an oath, a vow, and naming something as consecrated?

If one establishes an eiruv wearing black, can he (sic) later go out from the eiruv wearing white?

What about someone who establishes the eiruv while wearing white.  If he (sic) forgot his black clothing, can he even go out at all?

If a Sage annuls a vow regarding terumah, can that person's produce become tevel again?

If someone is ill, and eats only a bird's portion of food, can we establish an eiruv based on that person's portions?  What about a glutton - do the same rules apply?

How do we create an eiruv in a beit haperas (a graveyard or area with corpses in unknown places)?  How can priests ensure that they can walk in those places?

And, finally, if one enters Israel in a moving tent - which is not really a tent, according to the rabbis - or in a cupboard, or in a carriage, or in a crate, what do they have in common (other than being terribly uncomfortable, of course)?

These questions and more are discussed with fervour in Eiruvin 30a and b.

A fun daf.