fromThe Forward
1 week agoEvery Friday for 26 years, this rabbi has circled Manhattan to inspect the eruv - even missing the birth of his 13th child. Now, he's getting help
For the past 25 years, this process has been the rabbi's routine on both Thursday and Friday mornings: leaving his home in Monsey, an Orthodox enclave in Rockland County, hours before sunrise in order to circumnavigate the entire island of Manhattan. His mission: to check every part of the borough's eruv - the symbolic boundary, marked by strings and other man-made and natural elements, inside of which observant Jews may carry objects like food, keys and even babies on Shabbat and certain holidays.
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