Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

You know, what's the situation by the overpasses, right?

Then you have to work out all of the details within that Erev.

And there are many, many, many details within those Erevim.

So anyway, I think Rav Henkin, if I'm not mistaken, and Rav Nachman del Kasher,

were in favor of making an area of Manhattan, at least in theory, that it could work in Manhattan.

And at a certain point, the machlokas got heated enough that there was like a kol kore that was signed by the Yagudasar Rabbanim, and it was signed by a number of gedolim, Rav Aaron Kotler, Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky, Rav Bik, Rav Gedal Yashur, and Rav Moshe Feinstein.

And

It was worded much more strongly than his chuvah was, in terms of saying that people who carry in such an eruv are considered mechal alay shabbos, and things like that.

Okay, so it's a long, long, long dispute.

I think someone just publicized recently a letter from Rabbi Lamb's memos about...

about the heir of Manhattan that they had met with Rav Moshe.

I don't remember the details of the memo, but there's a lot of good history here.

I'm sure there are people that have done PhD theses on the heir of Manhattan and the history and the negotiations with this gadol and that gadol, because originally Rav Moshe said, I'm just not going to say anything.

and then ultimately he did sign, perhaps because he thought they were quoting in his name that it's Mutter, when he held it's not Mutter.

So whatever it is, there's a lot of interest.

I think the line that Rabbi Lamb said when he went to meet with Rabbi Aaron Cutler was that he said, he was like,

a lamb being led to the slaughter, when he met with Reverend Cutler about this.

Okay, question number three.

How are we supposed to view God's influence in everyday affairs that don't affect Jews?

Meaning what essentially the question is, is about hashkacha pratis as it relates to non-Jews.