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I really didn’t want to have to bring this up ’cause it’s going to open a pandoras box but you’ve forced my hand.
I’m going to write this & write it only once, without elaborating – I refuse to be drawn into a debate on the matter.
To the best of my understanding, aside for the Halachic issues involved, the GEDOLIM over the last forty years (who don’t have to be poskim) in their wisdom, i.e. Da’as Torah, WHICH WE DON’T HAVE! felt that if an eiruv would be constructed & used by the masses in Flatbush & BP it would lead to a churban (vehamaivin yovin).
For this reason they are so so so stringent & unflexible on the matter. (not that what I said before isn’t also true).
Therefore a posek who is Maikel is in the minority halachically, as well as upsetting the Da’as Torah of R’ Henkin, The Satmar Rav, R’ Moshe Feinstein, R’ Bik, R’ Avigdor Miller, R’ Shmuel Berenbaum & many many others Zecher Tzadikim livracha as well as all the leading gedolim & poskim of today who are vehemently opposed.
For the tenth time, I’m not here to tell you what to do, but if you want to know why they can’t just “live & let live” – that’s why.
You don’t have to like it & i’m not going to debate it, but those are the facts (as I understand them).