Q. I attended a city-wide gathering called for by Horav Shlomo in 2000 in which he asked the city to take upon themselves to not use the Eruv (i.e., not to be meikal just because it's there and available and not become accustomed to reliance on Eruv but not due to any halachic problem with it) and Rabbi Furer of Bobov asked the city to take upon themselves to not eat out at restaurants. I dutifully followed R Shlomo's request and for the past 17 years do not use the Toronto Eruv. Why is it that no one else has followed R Shlomo's request? Can I too have his permission to abandon it?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion, reflects other Poskim, and has always been that any large city eiruv relays on a number of different leniencies and therefore can be defined as being non-glatt.
Actually, there are hundreds of Bnai Torah in this city, that avoid carrying in the eiruv of any city, at least when not in need.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
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