What is eruv boundary?
An eruv is a symbolic boundary created with a string of fishing wire typically hung from a series of utility poles or other structures. The eruv creates a safe space for Orthodox Jews to carry certain items they otherwise would be forbidden to carry while outside the home on the Sabbath.
What are the rules of an eruv?
An eruv must be ‘completely enclosed’. The area is not enclosed by building a special wall round it – most of it is enclosed by existing natural boundaries like railway lines or walls. What matters is that the area is completely enclosed by boundaries that conform to Jewish law.
How high does an eruv have to be?
Among other things, an eruv must be built on land owned by the public, it may not have a ceiling, it must be at least 40 inches high, and it must be accessible to the public 24 hours a day.
Do you need an eruv in a hotel?
An eruv chatzeiros[26] might be necessary to permit carrying within the hotel premises (e.g. from a room to an enclosed hallway) on Shabbos. One should check with his rav. [27] However, if there is only one Jew or Jewish family among the hotel guests, an eruv chatzeiros is not needed.
What is the difference between unorthodox and Orthodox?
As adjectives the difference between orthodox and unorthodox is that orthodox is conforming to the established, accepted or traditional doctrines of a given ideology, faith or religion while unorthodox is unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic.
What is the nature and purpose of the Torah?
Nature, Message & Purpose. In the Bible, the Torah is referred to both as the “Torah of the Lord” and as the “Torah of Moses,” and is said to be given as an inheritance to the congregation of Jacob- the Jewish people. Its purpose seems to be to make Israel “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”. The Septuagint rendered the Hebrew torah by
Does the Torah exist only as a thought in the mind?
While allowing that God could conceivably have provided an ante-mundane place for a corporeal Torah, he preferred the interpretation that the Torah preexisted only as a thought in the divine mind. Similarly, the Ibn Ezra raised the problem of time.
Are Israel’s future borders already written in the Bible?
In fact, Israel’s future borders are already clearly written in Bible prophecy (if only the world would read it). God promised that He would give all the land of Canaan to Abraham and his descendants. He made a covenant with Abraham:
Did the Torah exist in heaven before Moses?
Jewish tradition holds that “Moses received the Torah from Sinai,” yet there is also an ancient tradition that the Torah existed in heaven not only before God revealed it to Moses, but even before the world was created.