n0mesorah,
“Look in that very teshuvah and he writes that he was told off for using that sevarah. The poster on the first page wanted to use that specific idea that Rav Moshe and Rav Aaron completely rejected. And none of the previous poskim entertained. It would throw out the whole mesechtes eruvin. Good Yidden don’t throw away mesechtos or invent new ones. If we are to build eruvin in cities there is a whole list of precedent on how to do so. To just do a run around on the whole topic, when we have more resources than we did in the last millenium is too deviant to have a place in any form of Orthodoxy. Conservative Jews built those kinds of eruvin before they all started driving on Shabbos. This was Rav Moshe’s concern more than anything else. In his amazing foresight he saw that Brooklyn would be the battleground for the pseudo halachic eruvin.”
To call those who made use of eruvin, which our grandparents relied on as deviant (witness Warsaw, Lodz, and Odessa), is Conservative Judaism. You are even unfamiliar with Rav Moshe’s writings on the inyan. If you are referring to the Aruch Hashulchan’s sevarh, well Rashi says similar (Eruvin, 59b), so sorry it is not such a chiddush after all. If you are referring to the issue of cars being included in the tally, well most poskim would disagree with Rav Moshe regarding this issue [Rav Aharon never weighed in the matter (contrary to what some say in his name), for in fact he did not uphold the criterion at all]. If you are referring to traffic lights, it was only used as a snif lheter (and there are more people who accepted it than you realize).
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