| West Hartford Eruv |
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The local community eruv is checked and maintained by the West Hartford Eruv Committee, an association comprised of clergy and laypeople from all of the local Orthodox synagogues. A map of the eruv is below. Please check with Rabbi Weinberg regarding the permissibility of carrying on Shabbat on the inside of any street along the eruv boundary. Some of these issues are listed below the eruv map.
Eruv status is updated every Friday (or erev Yom Tov, if a Yom Tov falls on Friday). It can be obtained in the following ways:
WHartfordEruv: May 18-19, 2012 / 27 Iyar 5772 / בהר־בחקתי: Eruv is UP. Candles 7:49 p.m. Sof Zman 9:08 a.m. Shabbat shalom!
You can also download this .kml file to access the eruv in Google Earth©. View Larger Map
UPDATE: We are pleased to announce that the Still Road eruv extension has been completed, albeit in a temporary fashion. This means that one may now carry on Shabbat on the west side of Main Street (on the sidewalk) and that streets and homes locates between Sheep Hill Road and Still Road are now included inside the eruv. There is still work that must be done to make this addition more permanent, so if you haven’t yet responded to the Eruv Appeal from a few months back, please do so generously!
Simsbury Road is outside the eruv. Most of the south side has no sidewalk.
The north sidewalk of Mohawk Drive is outside the eruv east of the intersection with Stoneham Drive. The south sidewalk is inside the eruv.
The west side of Ledyard Road and the south side of Albany Avenue between Leydard Road and Prospect Avenue are in the eruv. The north sidewalk of Albany Avenue is outside the eruv east of Ledyard Road.
The west side of Steele Road near Elizabeth Park is in the eruv, except at the intersection with Asylum Avenue. One can remain within the eruv by carefully walking around to the west of the telephone pole on the northwest corner of Asylum Avenue and Steele Road.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: "The eruv of the courtyards was established with the sole purpose of bringing peace." Midrash Tanchuma Bereshit, chapter 16
Rabbi Yehoshua said: "Why do we mix together the courtyards [build eruvin]? In order to follow peaceful ways... and through the eruv the people will make peace." Jerusalem Talmud, Eruvin 83:2 |
| Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:37 |
