Ep.13 – The Manhattan Wire
May 28, 2020•7 min
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A thin metal wire, called an "eruv", is strung up and run around nearly the entirety of the island of Manhattan as a loophole to Jewish law to allow its robust Orthodox population to work on the Sabbath. Its been there for nearly 100 years and I bet you had no idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv
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