?The entire city can be considered as one large house?
[Image: ?St. Mark's Place, with campanile, Venice, Italy,? via the Library of Congress].
Following a number of recent events for A Burglar?s Guide to the City?discussing, among other things, the often less than clear legal lines between interiors and exteriors, between public space and private?I?ve been asked about the Jewish practice of the eruv.
An eruv, in very broad strokes, is a clearly defined space outside the walls of the private home, often marked by something as thin as a wire, inside of which observant Jews are permitted to carry certain items on Shabbat, a day on which carrying objects is otherwise normally prohibited.
As Chabad describes the eruv, ?Practically, it is forbidden to carry something, such as a tallit bag or a prayer book from one?s home along the street and to a synagogue or to push a baby carriage from home to a synagogue, or to another home, on Shabbat.? However, ?It became obvious even in ancient times, that on Shabbat, as on other days, there are certain things people wish to carry. People also want to get together with their friends after synagogue and take things with them?including their babies. They want to get together to learn, to socialize and to be a community.?
While, today, ?it is an obvious impracticality to build walls throughout portions of cities, crossing over or through streets and walkways, in order to place one's home and synagogue within the same ?private? domain,? you can instead institute an eruv: staking out a kin...
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