Eiruv

The Eiruv is the means by which we combine our individual private and public properties into one “community entity”.  This allows us to do many activities on Shabbat that would normally be prohibited. [Please consult your Rabbi for the halachot pertaining to the laws of the Eiruv]. As participation in the Eiruv is a voluntary decision by members of a community to join together for this purpose, the eiruv committee asks each member of the community to voluntarily contribute to the maintenance and the upkeep of the eiruv.

Once a year, we ask each family in the community for a suggested donation of $100 to help us continue to maintain the Eiruv. In order to meet the increasing costs of  maintenance and weekly checking of the eiruv. It is necessary for all of the families living within the Eiruv to send in this tax-deductible contribution for the continued upkeep of our Eiruv. You can either send your check made out to the “Eiruv Association of Great Neck” to your synagogue office [who will forward it to us] or to the following address:

Eiruv Association of Great Neck

c/o Ronald Malen

24 Old Pond Road

Great Neck, New York 11023

at your earliest convenience.

If we cannot get the full support of our shul communities, the ability to  maintain and even to check the eiruv in the future is in jeopardy.  I can not imagine what the Great Neck Community would be like without this eiruv, which over the past 33 years, has been integral to the growth of the religious communities in Great Neck.

As the eiruv, by it’s very nature, requires the voluntary agreement of each member within it to be part of the eiruv, We can only ask that each donation be a voluntary contribution which would then represent this agreement.

If we can not have this participation, how would that affect the Eiruv, and the quality of our own lives each Shabbat? .

Please send in you contribution to show your support for the Great Neck Eiruv the community depends on you.

Ronald Malen

President, Great Neck Eiruv Association