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==Communally Owned Food== | ==Communally Owned Food== | ||
# The purpose of the jointly owned food is to indicate that it is as though everyone who owns a share of the food was living in one area.<ref>Gemara Eruvin 49a, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 94:6</ref> In order to create a community eruv food of the size of 6 or 8 Kebaytzim suffices.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 94:8</ref> Traditionally people use a box of Matzahs since that lasts a very long time.<ref>Rama 368:5. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/803011/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Eiruvei_Chatzeiros Rav Hershel Schachter ("Eiruvei Chatzeiros," min 2-4) on yutorah.org] explains that a box of matzah is traditionally used for the eruv chatzerot and it works even for Sephardim who would make mezonot since it can be hamotzei if eaten as a meal.</ref> | # The purpose of the jointly owned food is to indicate that it is as though everyone who owns a share of the food was living in one area.<ref>Gemara Eruvin 49a, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 94:6</ref> In order to create a community eruv food of the size of 6 or 8 Kebaytzim suffices.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 94:8</ref> Traditionally people use a box of Matzahs since that lasts a very long time.<ref>Rama 368:5. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/803011/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Eiruvei_Chatzeiros Rav Hershel Schachter ("Eiruvei Chatzeiros," min 2-4) on yutorah.org] explains that a box of matzah is traditionally used for the eruv chatzerot and it works even for Sephardim who would make mezonot since it can be hamotzei if eaten as a meal. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/803011/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Eiruvei_Chatzeiros Rav Hershel Schachter ("Eiruvei Chatzeiros," min 8-9) on yutorah.org] states that one box of matzahs probably has 8 Kebaytzim but if you think that's not enough then have 2 boxes of matzah.</ref> | ||
# The food should be given as a gift to the entire community with the following procedure: | # The food should be given as a gift to the entire community with the following procedure: | ||
## The box of matzahs should be handed to a Jewish adult to whom the giver is unrelated<ref>Mishna Eruvin 79b, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 94:7</ref> in order that the recipient acquire it on behalf of the Jews living in the community, including those who will move into the community from that point until the next Pesach.<ref>Tosfot Eruvin says that a guest who isn't living in a community for more than 30 days doesn’t need to participate in the shituf eruv for the chatzerot.</ref> | ## The box of matzahs should be handed to a Jewish adult to whom the giver is unrelated<ref>Mishna Eruvin 79b, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 94:7</ref> in order that the recipient acquire it on behalf of the Jews living in the community, including those who will move into the community from that point until the next Pesach.<ref>Tosfot Eruvin says that a guest who isn't living in a community for more than 30 days doesn’t need to participate in the shituf eruv for the chatzerot.</ref> | ||
