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<font size=3>At 08:40 AM 5/10/2011, M Cohen wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">YL asks - We have several Eruvim
here in Flatbush. I do not rely on any of<br>
them.<br>
Question: May I invite a couple whom I know will wheel their baby in
<br>
a stroller to eat at my house on Shabbos? They, of course, do rely
<br>
on the Flatbush eruv [at least one of them].<br><br>
Ie <br>
can I give a food item with a hechsher that I don't use, to some who
does?<br>
Can I allow my wife carry in an eruv that I don't rely on?<br>
Can I give an item of clothing that my community doesn't wear, to
someone<br>
who wears such items?<br><br>
The answer is the same to all for these types of questions:<br>
If you hold it is asur midinah, then you can't be machshil another in
this<br>
isur.<br>
If you hold it to be a chumrah, then another doesn't have to hold of
your<br>
chumros.<br><br>
Mordechai Cohen</blockquote><br>
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. Someone told me that he was once
walking carrying his talis, and he encountered Rav Hillel David. R.
David proceeded to berate him in no uncertain terms, making it clear that
according to him there was no Eruv in Flatbush.<br><br>
All of this seems to me to be more than a chumra. <br><br>
OTOH, there are many fine Jews who do use the Eruv in
Flatbush. My understanding is that most of the Chassidim living in
Boro Park use the Eruv there. There are poskim who permit it and
say that the Eruvim in Flatbush and BP are valid. <br><br>
Someone told me that on a certain Shabbos the food for the Seudah
Shlishis in shul was mistakenly left in someone's home over
Shabbos. R. Dovid Cohen was asked what to do about this, and he
said, "Have someone who uses the Eruv bring the food to
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