Reb Yontel the male yenta
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“If there is an Eruv, which means that the Rabbonim behind it are credible & competent ???? ????? & the Askanim behind it are credible ???? ??? than there is a Backup Eruv”
I have told the people who are involved in the every day matter of the Boro Park eruv that people are carrying outside of the eruv.They replied that this is not our problem :they have to check out the map and it is their responsibility and not ours. I believe that the Rabonim that first signed that you can make an eruv in Boro Park, only signed for the concept of permitting an eruv in Boro Park , not the exact whereabouts of the eruv. The people who then began putting up the eruv ran into many problems, such as anti eruv people ripping down the eruv., They also found out that the Chinese feel it is bad luck for them to have a string connecting two houses . Therefore, the people who were making the eruv had to make a pole outside of the school yard on 49 st between 8Th and 9Th ave and attach the eruv from the pole to a frum house. It was also necessary to make an eruv just covering half of 9th ave because mainly Chinese people live between 8th & 9th Aves.As far as a backup eruv, there aren’t any that are constructed from lechis and korahs(strings)B’deeved, maybe they are using something else, like the water? who knows!