n0mesorah,
“Eruvin is one of the most learned mesechtos by kolleliet today.”
Rav Tuvia mentioned this years ago. In any case, much of eruvin is learnt lekanter.
“There was much more to Rav Moshe’s stance than population by area. Your entire knowledge of Rav Moshe’s teshuva seems to come down to just the parts where the word ‘chiddush’ is included. It’s like learning the whole Shulchan Aruch in the old print, but just where the pointing finger was inserted.”
First of all, why don’t you demonstrate your bekeious in Rav Moshe’s teshuvos. From your writing it is clear you have a limited knowledge of his shitos. Second, these are the reasons why Rav Moshe objected to an eruv in Brooklyn, because he was led to believe that a 12 mil by 12 mil section of Brooklyn contains a population of 3 million, and that both Boro Park and Flatbush, each contain a population greater than 600,000. Additionally, he was informed that Brooklyn is not encompassed with mechitzos. These are factually incorrect. All the other reasons for which he could have possibly objected (which I am sure you do not know, but will go scrambling to figure out) fall away once the above reasons are shown to have been superseded. Please lean the inyan prior to answering.
“Rav Moshe published how he understood the sugya. He paskened according to how the public would treat the issue. Puk chazi how Hilchos Eruvin is slowly unraveling.”
Exactly. However, to require the world to follow an opinion of one who notwithstanding his stature made arguments that are so mechudash, that they should have been at the minimum mentioned in the Rishonim, is absurd. Eruvin is unraveling by lamdanim who never learnt halachah, and never were meshamish rabbanim. Otherwise it is just fine.