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I can’t read something like this without thinking of the late great Richard Scarry Luckily ChatGPt does a pretty good impression https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a6662e9af6c81918523fb06d1384e74
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There's a lot one could say about > following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter. but I don't think that "there is no 'high court' at all" is one, for believers.
You can look it up if you don’t believe me. Orthodox Judaism doesn’t have a supreme religious authority; it’s a general classification for ~hundreds of distinct sects and movements. (Each movement has its own beis din, but there is not “high court” that unifies religious rulings across them. Which is why an eruv created by one group is often considered invalid by others.)
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You can look it up if you don’t believe me. Orthodox Judaism doesn’t have a supreme religious authority; it’s a general classification for ~hundreds of distinct sects and movements. (Each movement has its own beis din, but there is not “high court” that unifies religious rulings across them. Which is why an eruv created by one group is often considered invalid by others.)
It's God, he's talking about God .
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You can look it up if you don’t believe me. Orthodox Judaism doesn’t have a supreme religious authority; it’s a general classification for ~hundreds of distinct sects and movements. (Each movement has its own beis din, but there is not “high court” that unifies religious rulings across them. Which is why an eruv created by one group is often considered invalid by others.)
It's God, he's talking about God .
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It's God, he's talking about God .
That wasn't clear to me :-). But even still: the eruv is a rabbinical interpretation, not something attributed to God.
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Meanwhile in place of power, cable, and phone lines there is a related 18 mile translucent line hung in order to turn the entire city into one big happy home called a *eruv* -- following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSldb9IMDVU
AFAIK the eruvim are not dictated by “high courts” (there is no “high court” at all), but are instead constructed and maintained by various Orthodox groups. Not all Orthodox groups agree about their propriety either, so the presence of an eruv doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s recognized. (Also pedantic, but it’s not the entire city: there’s a Manhattan eruv that covers a large part of Manhattan, while Brooklyn, Que…
There have been some big fights about the topic: https://traditiononline.org/unpacking-the-iggerot/
Although from what I understand, Moshe Feinstein wasn’t opposed to eruvim in principle, he just viewed them as an inappropriate for a city like NYC
Still waiting for someone to resurrect that old pneumatic tube system...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel...
It's quite frustrating. The story ends with: > four defendants refused to accept a plea deal and were set to be tried in April 2025 I can find loads of stories reporting those facts, but I can't find an account of what happened next. Did they change their pleas? Were they tried?
You can find the defendant names in this article (from the wikipedia link) [1] and then look up some basic case info by name: google "new york WebCriminal Defendant Search" and then search by defendant name + Kings Supreme Criminal Court. You'll see information like case number and next court date. You can also find similar info with "nyscef case search".
When I was clicking around, the website sometimes had language about not linking to it directly without permission so that's why no link... even though it seems a bit silly.
[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/brooklyn/men-charged-brooklyn-syn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel...
> The 13 people, all young men, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn ... Another four defendants were absent because they were in Israel, according to their lawyer, Levi Huebner.
> Justice Adam Perlmutter ordered the defendants ... to turn over their passports.