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Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Arizal and the Eruv

R. Chaim Vital writes of his esteemed master and teacher, the Arizal, that he was careful to make an eruvei chatzeiros every week before Shabbos, not like those that suffice with making one for the entire year. Indeed, the Arizal was very into the eiruv of his city, the fabled mystical town of Tzfas. Says R. Chaim Vital:
"I saw that my master would carry his tallis and chumash on Shabbos morning from his home to Shul. He would also carry it to the famous mikvah outside the city and he was not particular, nor did he bother, to verify if the eiruv for all the alleys of the city of Tzfas aw well as for the mikvah were made according to halachah."
שער הכוונות להרח"ו ז"ל ענין רחיצת פניו ורגליו ד"ה ענין העירוב
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