[Avodah] Inviting Someone On Shabbos Who Uses the Eruv

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:46:18AM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
> It it not at all clear to me that not using the Eruv in Flatbush is a  
> chumra.  Reb Moshe paskened that one could not make an eruv in Brooklyn, 
> and Rav Belsky holds the same thing, namely, that none of the Eruvim in 
> Brooklyn are valid....

According to R' Dovid Cohen, circa early 80s, RMF prefaced his answer with
a disclaimer. RMF tried to pursuade the sho'el to go to someone else,
acknowledging that his pesaq would based on a shitah of his that was a
daas yachid, and they were better off going elsewhere. But the sho'el
insisted that the eruv needed RMF's input to get off the ground anyway...

RDC at the time said that much of his opposition to the Flatbush eruv
was from the dinim of kavod harav, not hilkhos eruvin.

And, it would seem that RMF did consider it a chumerah, in at least one
sense of the word chumerah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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