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##For example, in a city-wide eruv, it is possible to rent the streets and public domains for religious purposes from the town mayor. This, with the other conditions of an eruv chatzerot, would permit carrying from the Jewish houses into the street and public domains.<ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/803011/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Eiruvei_Chatzeiros Rav Hershel Schachter ("Eiruvei Chatzeiros" min 20-27)] explains that classically the town mayor or chief of police had access to everyone's houses and as such it is possible to rent from the mayor the entire town. However, in America, the mayor doesn't have such rights but still it is possible to rent from the mayor the streets and public domains. However, this rental wouldn't help with the apartment buildings since the mayor doesn't have rights to the inside of the apartment building.</ref> | ##For example, in a city-wide eruv, it is possible to rent the streets and public domains for religious purposes from the town mayor. This, with the other conditions of an eruv chatzerot, would permit carrying from the Jewish houses into the street and public domains.<ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/803011/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Eiruvei_Chatzeiros Rav Hershel Schachter ("Eiruvei Chatzeiros" min 20-27)] explains that classically the town mayor or chief of police had access to everyone's houses and as such it is possible to rent from the mayor the entire town. However, in America, the mayor doesn't have such rights but still it is possible to rent from the mayor the streets and public domains. However, this rental wouldn't help with the apartment buildings since the mayor doesn't have rights to the inside of the apartment building.</ref> | ||
== | ==Overview of Eruv Chatzerot== | ||
#In order to carry from a house to a courtyard on Shabbat it is necessary to make an Eruv Chatzerot. An Eruv is a joint partnership of food from those who live in the courtyard to signify that they all live together where that food is placed. Shlomo Hamelech instituted this enactment because of a concern that people would come to carry in a reshut harabbim, public thoroughfare. Just like a courtyard is jointly owned and it is permitted to carry from a house there, so too people might think that it is permitted to carry from a house to the reshut harabbim. This institution of Eruv Chatzerot helps remind people that they may carry in the courtyard because they all live together in one place.<ref>Tur 366:1, Rambam Eruvin 1:4, Mishna Brurah 366:2</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 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> | ||
==Procedure of Making Communally Owned Food for Eruv Chatzerot== | |||
# An eruv chatzerot must be made with bread<ref>Eruvin 81a, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 366:7</ref> or pat haba bkisnin.<ref>Brachot 42a, Darkei Moshe 366:1 quoting Rabbenu Yerucham, Aruch Hashulchan 366:15. Shevet Halevi 11:103 wonders why the poskim by eruvin didn't codify this halacha. He answers that they didn't because it is obvious since even rice bread is acceptable for an eruv (Shulchan Aruch O.C. 366:7).</ref> | |||
# The food for the eruv should be placed in one vessel, but if that vessel overflows it is fine to put in two vessels.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 366:7</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> | ||
