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Daf Yomi Summary Siyum Masechet Eruvin 5781 We May Have Finished Learning Mesechet Eiruv, but How Do We Build an Eruv Today? EDITIO N: 43

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Daf Yomi Summary Siyum Masechet Eruvin 5781 We May Have Finished Learning Mesechet Eiruv, but How Do We Build an Eruv Today? EDITIO N: 43 ?''? ? daf yomi summary siyum masechet eruvin 5781 We may have finished learning Mesechet Eiruv, but how do we build an Eruv today? EDITIO N: 43 This edition of the Daf Yomi Summary sheet is dedicated in into the dark days of winter, the feeling of joy and the warm glow of memory of the Tzadikim that sadly passed away during the learning satisfaction of having completed another M asechet in Shas is what of M asechet Eruvin. In particular, in memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan sustains us. ????? ????? ?? ??? ?? ????? ???? Had it not been for Sacks ?"??, Rabbi David Feinstein ?"??, Yisrael ben M ordechai Your Torah as my delight, I would perished in my affliction (Tehillim Horwitz ?"? and Yehoshua ben Natan Goldstein ?"?. 119;92). The Daf Yomi Summary sheet is a crowd sourced newsletter ? ? ? ? ? ? produced on a weekly basis. If you would like to receive the For me, there is particular significance for this siyum on Daf Yomi newsletter and a daily 3 minute audio daf insight by Rav Effie Eruvin, since having established and had responsibility for an eruv in Kleinberg join the whatsapp group https://bit.ly/daf-daily-insights2 recent years, I was able to look at M asechet Eruvin through new or our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dafyomisummary. eyes. I am delighted to respond to the approach from afar from an A huge thank you to all the many writers who contributed to the ex-congregant of Whitefield Shul and to contribute my reflections in M asechet Eruvin editions. A huge thanks also you to our fantastic this vein, to M asechet Eruvin in communal Eruv practice for this editorial team. worthy publication. Thanks to our highly esteemed writers for this special edition; ? ? ? ? ? ? Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag Page 1 But before we go to the M anchester, a word about Great Britain, Rabbi Shalom Rosner Page 3 which makes a surprise appearance in classical rabbinic sources in the discussion of Eruvin. Rabbi Chaim Bruk Bozeman Page 4 Naomi Cohen Page 5 The Gemara (Eruvin 22b) suggests that due to hilly features in the topography of Eretz Yisrael, there ought to be no problem of Reshut Harabim, public domain, where carrying is prohibited d?Oraita by REFLECTIO NS O N Torah law in the Land of Israel. Why? asks the Gemara. Is it because that area of the Holy Land is surrounded from one side by the Ladder MASECHET ERUVIN AND of Tyre (Rosh Hanikra?) and by the slope of Gader (Golan Heights?) THE WHITEFIELD ERUV from the other? ?? ????? ??? ? ?????? ?? ?? ??? ???? ?????? ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? (Eruvin 22a-b) THANKS TO RABBI JO NATHAN GUTTENTAG And here comes the UK follow-up to this sugya. Writing in Approaching the end of M asechet Eruvin, in these unusual days of Teshuvot Chacham Zvi 37, Rabbi Zvi Ashkenazi (Altona Germany Corona, I reflect on two terms that appear to share an etymological 1694) suggests this: ?Imagine a wall was made around the entire connection, but with a difference. land of England ...., and continues ?before you express surprise M asecha, facemask, is a structure of woven material designed to about the land of England and Scotland?. protect the wearer and others, by preventing transmission of ???? ??? .???? ????????? ??? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?? ???? ??? unwanted particles through the fabric. ???? ??? ??? ????????? ??? ?? ??? A M asechet is a tractate of Gemara, also consisting of material - I reflect that in the last two decades there has been flowering of spiritual and intellectual - words and ideas that are woven together. eruvin in London and M anchester, whereas beforehand there were Unlike a masecha, the function of a M asechet is not to prevent, but none. Jews resettled in Britain in the 1660?s. Thirty years later the rather to enable and to facilitate effective transmission of the great halakhist, Chacham Zvi, who came to play a part in the London hallowed ideas and precious teachings of Torah from teacher to Jewish community, penned probably the earliest reference to the student and from generation to generation. subject of Eruvin in the UK. In these challenging days of isolation and lockdown, and as we get One of the most substantive halakhic topics affecting Eruvin is the ? ? 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The area we found to be situated, not at the curb by the road (where they most fundamentally debated aspect of Eruvin is the view of Rashi - on might cast more light on to the road), but set back right to wall of the which our eruvin heavily rely - that to be a reshut harabim, an area properties. (In jest, we conjectured why this might be. M aybe the must have 600,000 people. And when that is established one can borough engineers had a pessimistic view, and experience of the make an eruv in a street without putting a gate across the street to results of erratic driving, and the need to keep the poles away as far close it off on Shabbat. Having traversed the whole of the M asechta, away as possible from the road...? ) it is interesting to observe that this teaching is not located in But how close would the poles need to be to the walls? M asechet Eruvin or anywhere in the Talmud at all. Rather it is to be found in the commentary of Rashi to M asechet Shabbat Lavud is the operative principle - that within three tefachim handbreadths, the space is disregarded and the gap is considered as ? ? ? ? ? ? closed. M ost of the lampposts we intended to use were indeed within How many people in Whitefield? this ten and half inches or so. In setting out to create an eruv for Those small number of lampposts which were more than three Whitefield, it was necessary to firstly establish tefachim away from the wall, we designed a fill-in post to close the the population numbers of the proposed space to less than three tefachim. Planning permission was required enclosed area - answer approximately for these three low fill in posts, but since they measured the minimum 35,000. But even when one added the daily halachic height for a wall ten tefachim just over a metre, and sat entrants to Whitefield on foot, bicycle, train behind an existing lamppost just next to the wall, they were and car, it was estimated that the number unobtrusive and the planning application did not attract public would no way exceed 100,000 per day - and attention or controversy. so comfortably within the 600,000 limit of ? ? ? ? ? ? reshut HaRabbim d?oraita. When constructing a tzurat hapetach it must conform to the ? ? ? ? ? ? teaching of R Chisda (Eruvin 11b) that the wire must go over the top, The use of Tzurat HaPetach and not emerge from the side, of the poles An eruv is characterised in the public mind by the construction of ???? ??? ?? ? ?? - ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ???? :??? ? ?? ??? poles and wire forming a tzurat hapetach the shape, or form, of a Thus, as part of our conversation with the officers of the street doorway. In the opening M ishna we find If an alleyway is wider than lighting department of the Borough of Bury, we arranged for the 10 amot.
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