לענ”ד, מה שלא מודגש מספיק שמענה הרבי הוא,
שגם בערים קטנות לדעת הרבי אין להקים עירוב גלוי כלל

זאת אומרת, שהרבי נגד הקמת עירוב גלוי בשום עיר בעולם, ולא רק עירוב של צורת הפתח, אלא כל עירוב אף במחיצות מלאות, כמו שיש בכמה מקומות בארץ הקודש, הרבי נגד זה, כי זה משכיח תורת טלטול, ולא ידעו להיזהר כאשר יהיו במקום אחר.

http://www.chabad.org/554143

begins at 28:15 minutes into the sicha

On Shabbos, you can’t quite alert people with text messages.

But even if you could find a way, the Rebbe addresses this with a second issue, “few of those will abstain from carrying because of this (after having gotten used to carrying for many Shabbosos).”

Anyone who has had the experience of being in a community with an eruv on a week when it’s down can understand this.

And of course it won’t help for large cities with a reshus horabim, as the Rebbe writes.

Unfortunately very true.
As chasidim of the Rebbe, we MUST uphold the Rebbe’s authority.

A reshus horabim means a public area used by 600,000 (or according to some any street that is 24 feet wide).

To enclose a reshus horabim, you need solid walls and doors that can close, something that isn’t normally feasible.

An eruv made with polls and strings (tzuras hapesach) is good for yards and camps etc.

Rabbi Levin had mistakenly thought that the original maineh had been published elsewhere. However it was not found to be published anywhere.

“NEW RESPONSE FROM THE REBBE ADDRESSES ERUV QUESTION”

Even Rabbi Levin writes that he is quoting a known answer from the Rebbe.

Zalman Goldstein

“The Rebbe clearly holds that most cities are NOT a reshus horabim min Hatora, and that includes NYC.”

That is both untrue and ridiculous. The Rebbe never said that and it is ridiculous to say that one of the most populated cities in the world is not a reshus horabim.

The Rebbe says nothing about a city with or without 600,000 people. That comes from the author who draws his own conclusions.
The Rebbe clearly holds that most cities are NOT a reshus horabim min Hatora, and that includes NYC. Having 600,000 people in the city does not automatically deem the city a reshus horabim. There are other conditions that are needed before it can qualify as a Reshus Horabim.
The only objections the Rebbe has, are that the eruv may have been made by someone that is incompetent, and that even in a good eruv, there is a concern that it may break and people will continue to carry out of habit.

The “Eruv rav” isn’t quitting so fast. He will come up with convoluted arguments that “It’s not what the Rebbe meant, and the Rebbe changed his mind, and times have changed, and the Rebbe wasn’t talking about New York etc. etc.”

But “chassidim hubben a chush horeiach” and they can smell who is authentic and who is not.

When there ARE 600,000, the Rebbe says not to make one AT ALL!

It’s astounding how some people will twist the Rebbe’s words in every which way to get what they want.

Let’s be honest and faithful to the Rebbe’s words.