Daniel Ettedgui asks:
Why shouldn't demai be permitted for eiruv tchum since the poor could eat it?
Daniel Ettedgui, Boca Raton, USA
The Kollel replies:
Good question! Indeed, Tosfos (DH Demai) asks your question.
Tosfos answers that, indeed, the Gemara could have given that answer. It chose to answer what it did because of the view of Sumchus, who maintains that the Eruv must be fit for the person who makes it.
B'Virchas Kol Tuv,
Eliezer Chrysler