ERUV


Meaning of ERUV in English

[ 'ɛrʊv ]

■ noun ( plural ~im 'ɛrʊvɪm , ~s ) Judaism an enclosed urban area in which activities normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath are allowed to take place (the boundary wire symbolically extending the private domain of a Jewish household).

Origin

from Heb. ῾ērū ḇ , from a base meaning 'mixture'.

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