{"id":11482,"date":"2009-10-06T16:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2009-10-06T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:57:47","slug":"the-rav-vs-the-eruv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11482","title":{"rendered":"The Rav Vs. The Eruv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seforim.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/writings-of-r-hayyim-gulevsky-part-2.html\">Dr. Marc B. Shapiro blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In Boston, as long as R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik was active, there was no eruv. The Rav publicly declared:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>      I am opposed to the establishment of eruvin. An eruv in American means the abolishment of the prohibition of carrying on Shabbat. Aside from certain [meta-halakhic] reasons, I also have halakhic reasons why I can&rsquo;t give my approval to the establishment of eruvin. [29] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As soon as the Rav was no longer able to protest, an eruv was established in Brookline. I was in the Bostoner Rebbe&rsquo;s shul when he spoke about how important the eruv was and that everyone should rely on it. He insisted that there must be no distinction between the &ldquo;frum,&rdquo; who don&rsquo;t carry, and everyone else. It is interesting that the Modern Orthodox world, which places the Rav on such a pedestal, has not accepted one of his few public halakhic pronouncements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marc B. Shapiro blogs: In Boston, as long as R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik was active, there was no eruv. The Rav publicly declared: I am opposed to the establishment of eruvin. An eruv in American means the abolishment of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[19255,29874,16968,29808,7423,10747],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro","tag-bostoner-rebbe","tag-eruv","tag-joseph-b-soloveitchik","tag-marc-b-shapiro","tag-orthodox-world","tag-r-joseph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}