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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 is a symbolic enclosure that allows Orthodox Jews to carry items outside of their home during the weekly Shabbat observance, which begins at sundown on Friday and lasts through nightfall ...
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.
Usually created by running thin, virtually invisible fishing wire from the tops of utility poles and streetlamps, an eruv makes it legal (under Jewish law) for a religiously observant person to ...
An eruv techumin (Hebrew: עירוב תחומין, "mixed borders") for traveling enables Jews to travel on Shabbat or a Jewish holiday, without violating the prohibition of techum shabbat. They prepare food prior to Shabbat or the holiday on which they plan to travel farther than is normally allowed on such days.
The magnetic North Pole is sometimes confused with the geographic North Pole, but this spot stays at the same place as it is where all lines of longitude converge.
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;