Shalom, and welcome to Eruvim.

This website is dedicated to Judaism and Jewish life.

We welcome Jews and Non-Jews alike, and try to provide you with answers you may have.

Please take a moment to learn about this web site and it's goals in the Why section.

WHAT'S AN ERUV

Under Orthodox Jewish law, Shabbat is a day set apart from the working week. Family time and spiritual pursuits are emphasized and certain activities associated with the working week are prohibited. Carrying and pushing wheelchairs and baby buggies is permitted in private homes and in community areas whose symbolic boundaries are marked by an eruv. An eruv is simply a practical method of denoting the area within which carrying and pushing wheelchairs and baby buggies is permitted. 

We have taken the liberty as to define ERUV in a more metaphorical way, in that we believe that everybody has his or her boundaries and rules by which one lives. 

There are well over 150 eruvim in communities all over the world -- and many more in Israel. Every major city in North America has one - Toronto, Phoenix, Memphis, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Providence, Miami, New York City and Washington, D.C., to name but a few. Outside North America there are eruvs in Johannesburg, Melbourne, Gibraltar, Antwerp and Strasbourg. The Washington, D.C. eruv includes the White House. The Strasbourg eruv includes the European Court of Human Rights.