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If you donate $180 to the Monsey eruv, you can select to receive a free copy of my forthcoming greatly expanded fourth edition of The Contemporary Eruv; Eruvin in Modern Metropolitan Areas.
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer הרב יוסף גבריאל בקהופר
what is new in this edition if I have 3rd edition will it be worthwhile to buy new one? asked the question on SeforimChatter on twitter as well
ReplyDeleteIn the first sections, the notes have been expanded in places and many corrections that were in the Appendices are now in the text.
ReplyDeleteThese sections are the largely new ones:
Chapter VI:
Some Practical Issues in the Field
1. The “Side-Top-Wire” Issue 186
2. Brackets 189
3. Lechi All the Way Down to the Ground 191
4. Series of Consecutive Lechayayim 197
5. Omed Merubeh Issues 199
6. Lechi Issues 206
7. The Perth Eruv 207
8. Various Issues Identified by the National Eruv Initiative 208
9. Access from One Side of an Eruv to the Other Side 213
10. The Poughkeepsie Eruv 214
11. Scenarios from Rabbi Micah Shotkin 214
12. Several Miscellaneous Scenarios 216
13. Rabbi Jachter's Guidelines 217
Chapter VII:
Ideas for Dealing With the Authorities
1. The Non-Territoriality of an Eruv:
Ritual Bearings in Jewish Urban Life 242
2. Preserving the Right of Way of an Eruv 280
3. Sechiras Reshus Forms 282