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===Applications to Specific City Eruvin=== | ===Applications to Specific City Eruvin=== | ||
====Manhattan==== | ====Manhattan==== | ||
#Rav Moshe Feinstein objected to any eruv in Manhattan because of specific issues with the walls and more generally because if they did people would mistakenly learn from there that it is possible to make an eruv in a reshut harabbim. Originally he was willing to accept that others could argue with him, after the 1962 agudas harabbanim convention which concluded that it was forbidden to make an eruv in Manhattan, he wrote this more forcefully that no one should make an eruv in Manhattan. | #Rav Moshe Feinstein objected to any eruv in Manhattan because of specific issues with the walls and more generally because if they did people would mistakenly learn from there that it is possible to make an eruv in a reshut harabbim. Originally he was willing to accept that others could argue with him,<ref>Igrot Moshe OC 4:89 dated Chanuka 1961</ref> after the 1962 agudas harabbanim convention which concluded that it was forbidden to make an eruv in Manhattan, he wrote this more forcefully that no one should make an eruv in Manhattan.<ref>Igrot Moshe OC 1:139, YD 3 Hashmata to 4:89, 4:89</ref> | ||
====Brooklyn==== | ====Brooklyn==== | ||
#Rav Moshe Feinstein rejected the possibility of an eruv in Brooklyn because it had a population close to 3,000,000, which in his view would disallow relying on Rashi. Additionally, even if it didn't have that population it is still forbidden to make an eruv in such a big city because people will mistakenly learn from there that it is possible to make an eruv in a reshut harabbim.<ref>Igrot Moshe OC 1:138-9</ref> | #Rav Moshe Feinstein rejected the possibility of an eruv in Brooklyn because it had a population close to 3,000,000, which in his view would disallow relying on Rashi. Additionally, even if it didn't have that population it is still forbidden to make an eruv in such a big city because people will mistakenly learn from there that it is possible to make an eruv in a reshut harabbim.<ref>Igrot Moshe OC 1:138-9, OC 4:87</ref> | ||
====Chicago==== | ====Chicago==== | ||
#Rav Ben Tzion Wosner<ref>Shevet Halevi 8:177(2)</ref> explains why he allowed an eruv in West Rogers Park, Chicago. His primary reason was that it had 3 walls because of rivers and trains and only needed fixing with tzurot hapetach in some locations. Additionally, he held that 600,000 is defined by the location that the eruv encloses and West Rogers Park itself certainly has a population less than 600,000. | #Rav Ben Tzion Wosner<ref>Shevet Halevi 8:177(2)</ref> explains why he allowed an eruv in West Rogers Park, Chicago. His primary reason was that it had 3 walls because of rivers and trains and only needed fixing with tzurot hapetach in some locations. Additionally, he held that 600,000 is defined by the location that the eruv encloses and West Rogers Park itself certainly has a population less than 600,000. | ||
