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Tzuros Hapesach; compilation
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Rabbi Chaim Jachter takes us around a community showing all the different areas where a Tzuras Hapesach is neccesary for a kosher Eruv.
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this is rabbi kaim jakhter for the
orthodox union's aldaf
in a series entitled bringing hill jose
irvine massachusetts aravind to life
today in our video what we're going to
be showing is
suros hapasa which focuses on
we're going to show you how it's applied
in the field in north america where
typically
utility lines are used and or modified
to make proper suros apassa we'll be
following the suck and mostly of
moshe feinstein and who initially was
the one and
back in the 1970s and 80s we start we
started making community air in the
united states approved using
the utility lines and we'll see how
that's applied
today what we're going to be uh
beginning with is showing you what we're
trying to do and here we go
you take a look with rashi you'll see
that we're trying with the tsurasa
passage we're trying to with door frames
we're trying literally
we're trying to replicate an actual door
frame what's an actual door frame so
just let's let's
uh focus a minute on an actual door
frame let's see what we have here's your
door frame
here's your side post your top post
your side post kumara calls this konomi
khan
let's see how this is applied in the
field
as we go outside and take a look at
utility poles what i'd like to show now
is
is that how the utility poles are not
created in a
perfect tsurasa passage the perfect form
of a dorm frame
like i showed you in a door frame in my
house i'm going to go out here
and we're going to take a look and see
how the wires are not quite perfect and
here we're going to take a look at for
just for one example
we'll take a look at a uh at a wire
that's drooping
and this wire is drooping and this is
the subject of a major macrocosm
generally speaking is to be convenient
about it
they was the minhag already in in
europe was to be pre-world war two
europe was to be union about this issue
and in our book we have a significant
discussion about
a droopy wire a sagging wire
is it acceptable what about if it only
drags
if it droops less than three twelfth and
is that acceptable
there is considerable discussion typical
in american arabian
is that we do rely on sags there is a
dispute in practice about
how deep of a sag will allow but in
practice
we do allow saggy wars because this is
typically the way the wires are made
they do have some sag in it
in order to allow for some give and some
flexibility
now another area of significant dispute
is the slanty wire
here's an example of a slanty wire
happens quite a bit here
tension wires going from this pole to
that ball and this
slanty wire is uh is that acceptable is
it not acceptable the mission brewer and
shin sama
is quotes opinions about this and
basically what's accepted in practice in
aravind in the united states is the
sack of revin cutler is that up to 45
degrees would be acceptable
less than 45 degrees would not be
acceptable
if it is considered to if it is
if if it is more slanty
than it is straight if it's more than 45
degrees we'll view that as
being vertical but if it is more
straight than it is slanty less than 45
degrees we'll view that
as horizontal that's the basic stock and
we would accept
a saggy wire such as the one over here
we would accept
the slanty wire such as the one over
here
now we introduce another area of
great much locate and that is taco when
the wire is bolted
through the pole now that we mentioned
that this wire this slanty wire is
acceptable
now we have to take a look at the issue
of taco
let's take a look at this wire let's
look at it closely
the wire comes in it's not on top of the
pole it's not on the side of the pole
the gemara tells us that if it's
minhat's side if the wire has been
outside
the wires on the outside it's not
considered to be acceptable
however it's on top of the pole it's
acceptable in this case the wire
is not on top of the pole and it's not
on the side
of the pole but rather it's bolted
through the pole
is that considered to be an acceptable
or is it not considered to be an
acceptable
this is or is the pole considered
excitable except a acceptable lucky is
the
wires considered to be going on top of
it this is a considerable
mach lokas we have the hazun ish and the
shulkhan who will who who pass in that
is acceptable
whereas the mission broke supreme gotham
who is masupaka and is inclined to be
mahmeer and there is in practice quite a
difference in american
north american tacos uh
north american aravind do we accept taco
do we not accept it
some communities accept it other
communities do not depends on the post
sake
depends on the circumstances of the
community but here's an opportunity you
could take a look
very closely and see what taco is how
the wire comes in
attached to a bolt bolted through and
this is what the linemen the
professionals who work on the lines they
call this tahoe
this is an area of considerable
machlokas
now we take a look at the other side of
the boat through the other side of the
boulder was clean and went through
straight and those who accept taco will
will
will it will accept that as talk of
unquestionably
here we have an example of the on the
other side of this tension wire
where the where the bolt goes in but it
comes in
at the joint on an angle it bends a
little bit
it curves a little bit is this
acceptable is it not acceptable this is
a sub mock locus
where some will accept it some will not
now we're going to take a look at a poll
in which is typical of
the utility poles that they slant not
perfectly straight
is it considered to be acceptable again
we follow in the united states and north
america
we follow cutler's sock of less than 45
degree
slant is considered to be straight so
yes it's on a slant
we will consider to be acceptable as a
pole
for making a tsur sapesa because it
is more straight than it is slanted the
slant is less than 45 degrees
now what's interesting also about this
pole is that there is a
the top center wire you look at the top
center wire it runs on top of the pole
that is considered to be acceptable you
want in a surosa
you want that to be the top wire should
run
on top of the pole that is considered to
be acceptable
when it runs on top of the pole not on
the side
this would be very fine used
for a component of an aero a economy con
a side post and kanamela mala and the
one
and the wire that runs on top this pole
is a very very interesting pole
this pole already the wire does not run
on top
but it runs on the side so off hand you
would think that that is a tsura sapasa
minhat side but the y runs on the side
and it's no good however
many rabunam actually believe that this
is acceptable including rochefort
wisely believe it's acceptable so look
very very carefully
you'll notice that the wire is attached
to what's called an
insulator this is attached
that attachment the insulator is
attached
to the pulse actually attached to the
pole and
the white stick the white stick is
longer than it is wider
and is considered to be by many
by roshachter and many other post skin
to be a legitimate extension
of the pole itself since it's longer
than wider it's considered to be a
legitimate
extension of the pole we spoke about
that in an earlier video
about the speed limit 35 sign
in which we noted the comparison that
the shaozin shiva's max
ram the shouse and chivas yaakov
to the elongated magta that the kohingol
would use
on yom kippur to bring the gekholin from
the mizbeh
into the kurdish kardashian if it's
considered it is longer than it is wider
is considered to be a valid extension of
the
mata so to hear that extension of the
pole is considered to be a valid
extension to the pole so even though the
wire does not
run above the pole itself
it does run above that that
that extension of the pole it runs above
that
that that white piece which goes above
the pole and that white extension
that's that white extension that white
stick that is attached to the pole
the wire runs above it and the white
stick is considered to be a legitimate
extension of the pole the y runs above
that white stick we view it as if the
wire runs above
the pole itself at least going through
shelter and many other post scheme
some communities adopt this in practice
others do not
we're going to continue now contrasting
a situation where the top side wire
is not acceptable we know that a top
sidewire is acceptable
if the or at least according to many
opinions it's a disputed area some
community here have been reliant in the
united states some do not
ravon cutler was the postsec that uh
would that would support it with
heinemann ramosha heinemann has
supporting it and ravshefter supports it
others disagree
uh the idea is is that even though the
war does not run over the pole
it runs over the insulator that white
stick
that white stick but here if you look
very very carefully
it's very nuanced so you have to be very
very careful about this
you'll notice that the wire does not run
over the main pole
and it doesn't run over the white stick
either it's
only over the the mushroom cap and the
how and there's a major distinction
between the white stick
and the mushroom cat the white stick is
longer than it's wider
and it's attached to the pole and
therefore it's a valid extension of the
pole
what we've been speaking about as a
comparison to the
uh elongated mata used in the base in
big dutch by the calling gut all
for young kipper however here we have a
situation where
the wire is in is
is runs uh to runs on top
of the mushroom cap not above the pole
not above the white stick and this would
not be acceptable even according to
heinemann even according to uh ravshakta
this is at a corner you'll notice this
is at a bend not a corner but a bend
and this is typical to have a set up
like this at a bend
where the wire does not run on top of
the stick but rather on top of the
mushroom cap
and it would not be acceptable so just
have air of planners have to be
very very careful about this that
they're going to rely on
this approach of rochester and
refinement to accept
the top side wire they have to make sure
that a situation like this
is not accepted
now we have the opportunity to explain
how
you have to be very careful when
planning out an a-roof
and you have to be very very precise
when you want to rely on the utility
poles to form its own source of pasta
you want to try to use poles where the
wires where there's the
there's a top wall the top center wire
runs over the pole this way the source
of passage
forms the utility poles form their own
surasa passa
you have this on this on this run on the
street here
in this particular community that we're
filming their aero
and it runs uh there's a water pole
behind us which we're not going to show
has the wire that's on top this pole
over here has a wire as
the wire runs on top of the pole
and then the pole on the next uh
down the next pole down the street south
the wire juts out a little bit it's not
on top of the pole
but then a pole down it returns to being
above the pole
very good and then and beyond that also
is above the pole
so we'll label this poll one two three
four so three to four is totally fine
it's the problem is from one to three
is that acceptable is it not acceptable
again using the top
center wire so can we skip
the middle wire that's the whole
discussion are you allowed to
skip a pole some of the abundant will
require a pole in
every a lucky in every single pole no
matter what unless there's a wire that
runs on top of the pole
however others disagree but it seems
that everybody would pretty much would
agree in a situation where
there's a significant bend in the wire
then you
would need a left on every single pole
and this is exactly what we have over
here
we have this wire if you take a look
here you'll notice
if you stand from afar and you have to
start stand at the edges
you'll notice that this top middle wire
bends
and we don't want to rely certainly not
like we don't want to rely
on a significant bend such as this
and therefore what we're going to do is
like this we end
the the source of pesa that's uh
foreign by the utility wires themselves
on this pole
we bring it down we have a lefty that
goes to this
goes to the lowest wire and then the
next pole a lucky goes to the lowest
wire
and the pole after that the lucky that
goes to lois wire
and on that pole we go back to the wire
on top but again we want to emphasize
that the only way to to show to be able
to really perceive that this is a
significant bend is
you must stand in the edge on the edge
if you're going to stand in the middle
the extent
of the bend is not as perceptible so
when you're planting an aero
you have to plan carefully and stand at
the edges in order to be able to
properly gauge whether you have
a significant bend or not
we're on the other side of the street
now and we're standing now in the middle
of the bend
what we're trying to show here is is
that you cannot
gauge the bend the extent of the bend by
standing
at the vortex of the bend you have to be
at the edge
by yara samako merako you have to
stand at the edge in order to perceive
the bend properly
because if you can now if you can see
the perspective from the middle
the bend does not seem to be dramatic
and one might accept this bend
and say it's not a particularly
significant bend but you're not looking
at them from the right spot the right
spot would have to be
from the from the edges look at the
edges
then you'll be able to proceed with
whether properly whether it's a bench
now in this video we're going to show
you how an illustration where
you have a straight wire and in this
community
the rabano have decided you can actually
skip a poll here you have a you have a
pole where you have
a lefty it goes to the lowest wire
and it's nice clean uh lucky and
uh if you see down the street you look
straight
you'll notice that the lowest wire the
wire that the air of his u is relying on
as it's kanu milamala it's perfectly
straight
to uh not just one pull down but two
poles down
two poles down you'll notice there's a
left height but in the
intervening pole the pole in the middle
there is no lucky
notice that there's no lucky on this
pole because
it is straight and we said it before in
previous video
that it's straight both by looking at
the edge
at the and not at the middle but if you
stand on the edges you'll see it's
straight
and there's a lucky on the prior pole
there's a lucky on this coming pole
but this pole has no lefty because there
are abundant this community have decided
no need to have a lefty on every single
pole as long as the wire is straight
and here as determined by standing at
the edges
the wire is straight and hence
the ability to skip this pole no need to
have bullet on this pole
here's an interesting situation where
you have a rishi-sayaki that runs
underneath the wire a few rabbanim don't
like this because they'll say
that look this is just a yakit it's
fort's by fort's falcon it's
tenth high
and it runs beneath the kaname malla and
it runs
exactly beneath the wire the air of war
the water we
were relying on as the aeruv and what's
the idea resistance
it goes all the way to the rakia and
therefore they will say basic command de
mayo dummy
and it extends all the way to the rakia
and as if it
cuts away the wire however
other abundance such as
feel that this is a hundred percent okay
because they'll say this is just another
lucky
and why not it's ten high it can
be a lucky so what if
you it could also serve as a lucky and
for many years in arabic israel
the common practice was to use barrels
to serve as allah and they were 10
high
four talking by fourth and also
which is the minute generates historical
for many years
was not to be concerned with this idea
of the rishis yapid
creating a basa commander malaya dummy
ola
kia and cutting off the wire
this is rabbi heim jachter for the
orthodox union's
old off in a series called bringing
hilhos ervin and masekis aravind
to life