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; Ketuvot 65b
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; Ketuvot 65b
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 nochri 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 shoteh place the meal in its spot: Eruvin 31b
Having a cheresh 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
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