The job is not an easy one but rabbonim affiliated with Yerushalayim�s mehadrin eruv are working to include Kever Rachel in time for the Yomim Tovim. The project is a complex one, spanning several kilometers, calling for infrastructure, poles, and running the eruv line. Part of the work is being conducted in an area under PA (Palestinian Authority) control, with workers being protected by security forces.
The request for extending the Jerusalem eruv came from the IDF Chief Rabbinate, seeking to eliminate unnecessary chilul Shabbos by soldiers who at times are compelled to carry equipment from the Jerusalem border to Kever Rachel on Shabbos.
As in past years, there will be davening in Kever Rachel on Rosh Hashanah, and the eruv will also remove any questions regarding walking too far out of the city limits, rabbonim explain. Supervising the project is Rabbi Avraham Moshe Katzenelbogen, who is the posek for the Yerushalayim eruv.
Under the urging of the Admor M�Erlau, the committee has recently completed new sections of the eruv in some southern Yerushalayim areas as well, including Arnona, Katamonim, Gilo, and Armon HaNatziv. The new mehudar eruv was made possible by some generous donations.
The Center for Eruvin in Eretz Yisrael is headed by Rabbi Moshe Berlin and Rabbi Nosson Weineld, considered experts on hilchos eruvin, a breakaway of the Committee for Kedushas Shabbos under the auspices of Rabbi Binyamin Rothstein.
The organization enjoys the support of gedolei Torah from a wide spectrum of the frum community, realizing its focus is to construct and eruv wherever possible to prevent chilul Shabbos.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
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