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Eruvei Chatzerot

Eruvei Chatzerot is part of the Festival Prayers (Shalosh Regalim) service of the traditional weekday siddur. The full Hebrew text with English translation appears below; open it in the free interactive siddur to follow along.

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It is the custom that this is done each year on Erev Pesach, thus the enclosed wording is part of the normative Chabad text. However if one is making an eruv for only that Shabbat that phrase may be excluded. If one is making an eruv for an entire city the alternate wording is also provided in parenthesis. As the laws of constructing an eruv is complicated and the amount that each party must contribute is detailed, one should consult a local rabbinic authority before construction. The person who receives the matzah should take them and lift them a tefach (a “handsbreadth,” approximately 3.5 inches) and give them to the person making the eruv. Then the leader should then recites the blessing:

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו, וְצִוָּנוּ עַל מִצְוַת עֵרוּב:

Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the mitzvah of eruv.

The following declaration is also made:

בְּדֵין יְהֵא שָׁרָא לָנָא לַאֲפוּקֵי וּלְעַיּוּלֵי וּלְטִלְטוּלֵי מִבַּיִת לְבַיִת וּמֵחָצֵר לְחָצֵר וּמִבַּיִת לְחָצֵר וּמֵחָצֵר לְבַיִת וּמֵרְשׁוּת לִרְשׁוּת - בֵּין בְּשַׁבָּת זוּ וּבֵין בִּשְׁאָר שַׁבְּתוֹת הַשָּׁנָה - לָנוּ וּלְכָל הַדָּרִים בִּשְׁכוּנָה (בָּעִיר) הַזֹּאת:

Through this it shall be permissible for us to take out, to bring in, to carry from house to house, from courtyard to courtyard, from house to courtyard, from courtyard to house, and from area to area, whether on this Shabbat or on any other Shabbat of the year—for us and for all who live in this neighborhood.

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