Something I recently learnt about is the existence of
eruvs which are essentially thin pieces of wire that enclose a community in order to allow Orthodox Jews to do things they could never otherwise do on the Shabbat. And apparently Vancouver has an eruv which you can even
check every week if it is up.
This was the most I could find about it from the
National Post
Quote:
In Vancouver, it’s a winding maze of power lines and fences that pass behind city hall and overtop the Vancouver General Hospital.
To make sure the eruv is “up” each Friday, congregations maintain teams of eruv checkers to give it a once-over before the Sabbath. In Vancouver, they use a two-person check team: One to drive and one to watch the wires.
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I'm curious if anyone has ever noticed the eruv being inspected (apparently in New York it's essentially a rabbi driving around the Eruv making sure nothing is broken). And being the curious person I am, I'm wondering if I'm looking at a power line that's an eruv if all the lines are part of the eruv or if there's a specific line that functions as the eruv. I'm also curious to know why Downtown doesn't have an eruv.
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