West Hartford Eruv

The local community eruv is checked and maintained by the West Hartford Eruv Committee, an association comprised of clergy and laypeople from all of the local Orthodox synagogues.  A map of the eruv is below. Please check with Rabbi Weinberg regarding the permissibility of carrying on Shabbat on the inside of any street along the eruv boundary.  Some of these issues are listed below the eruv map.

 

Eruv status is updated every Friday (or erev Yom Tov, if a Yom Tov falls on Friday).  It can be obtained in the following ways:

  • Following the eruv on Twitter, where you can also get SMS updates to your smartphone by texting FOLLOW WHartfordEruv to 40404
  • Visiting our website, either directly below on this page, or on the right column of any page below Shabbat Times
  • Calling the Eruv Hotline at 860-232-6417
WHartfordEruv: February 17-18, 2012 / 25 Shevat 5772 / משפטים שבת שקלים: Eruv is UP. Candles 5:07 p.m. Sof Zman 9:24 a.m. Shabbat shalom!

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You can also download this .kml file to access the eruv in Google Earth©. View Larger Map

 

One may carry on the east side of North Main Street from Old Meadow Road north to Agudas Achim.  Please use caution when walking along the side of the street, or else use King Philip Drive to Tumblebrook Lane.

 

Sheep Hill Drive is NOT accessible from North Main Street from within the eruv.  The eruv boundary on the west side of North Main Street is south of this intersection.  Use Miller Road, Arden Road, and Hyde Road to get to Eisenhower Park or points west.

 

Simsbury Road is outside the eruv.  Most of the south side has no sidewalk.

 

The north sidewalk of Mohawk Drive is outside the eruv east of the intersection with Stoneham Drive.  The south sidewalk is inside the eruv.

 

The west side of Ledyard Road and the south side of Albany Avenue between Leydard Road and Prospect Avenue are in the eruv.  The north sidewalk of Albany Avenue is outside the eruv east of Ledyard Road.

 

The west side of Steele Road near Elizabeth Park is in the eruv, except at the intersection with Asylum Avenue.  One can remain within the eruv by carefully walking around to the west of the telephone pole on the northwest corner of Asylum Avenue and Steele Road.

 

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: "The eruv of the courtyards was established with the sole purpose of bringing peace."

Midrash Tanchuma Bereshit, chapter 16

 

Rabbi Yehoshua said: "Why do we mix together the courtyards [build eruvin]? In order to follow peaceful ways... and through the eruv the people will make peace."

Jerusalem Talmud, Eruvin 83:2

Last Updated on Thursday, 24 November 2011 10:32
 
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