Reply To: The Los Angeles Eruv

yehud: He supported the KGH eruv.

I don’t like the answer that it’s truly arbitrary. I know I said it feels that way, but it can’t really be. If Reb Moshe would have 100% assur’d the LA eruv since he assur’d the Brooklyn one, then people who don’t hold of the Brooklyn eruv shouldn’t be holding of the LA one, yet they are.

An issue unique to LA, which I don’t think is present in the Brooklyn case, is a major 4-lane road running through the middle of the eruv. I guess the local LA rabbonim determined that it isn’t traversed by 600K cars.