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The term eruv is a shortening of eruv chatzerot (עירוב חצרות ), literally a "merger of [different] domains" (into a single domain). This makes carrying within the area enclosed by the eruv no different from carrying within a single private domain (such as a house owned by an individual), which is permitted.
An eruv boundary, Airmont, New York. Note the white plastic lechi at right of nearest pole. In Teaneck, in southeastern Bergen County and home to large numbers of Orthodox Jews, an eruv has existed since the 1970s with little controversy, and, as the Jewish population increased, was extended to nearby Bogota and Bergenfield.
An eruv accomplishes this by integrating a number of private and public properties into one larger private domain, thereby avoiding restrictions on carrying objects from the private to the public domain on the Sabbath and holidays. This is a list of places that have eruvin, both historic and modern, that are or were rabbinically recognized.
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An eruv is a religious-legal enclosure which permits carrying in certain areas on Shabbat.. Eruv may also refer to: . Eruvin (Talmud), a tractate in Moed Eruv tavshilin ("mixing of cooked dishes"), which permits cooking on a Friday Holiday to prepare for Shabbat
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Eruvin (Hebrew: עֵרוּבִין, lit."Mixtures") is the second tractate in the Order of Moed in the Talmud, dealing with the various types of eruv.In this sense this tractate is a natural extension of Shabbat; at one point these tractates were likely joined but then split due to length.
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