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Comparatively, it’s much better for a community to have a machlokes over an Eruv than a machlokes over sports, if the alternatives are only one or the either (in a hypothetical scenario.)
A machlokes over an Eruv indicates the community’s focus is engaged and cares about ruchniyos issues. A machlokes over sports indicates a community’s focus is engaged and cares about goyishe issues.
A Machlokes over ruchniyos can also cause more serious machlokeses, You know the old joke there are 2 jews on a deserted island. How many shuls are there. The answer is 3. One each of them wont go to and the 3rd neither of them will go to
A Machlokes over spots everyone knows really isnt serious and they can still be friends. Everyone knows its just trash talk
Better to have a machlokes over something not serious and be friends than have a machlokes over something serious and cause serious Sinas chinam
Not that there should be machlokes, but the two are not mutually exclusive. You could have arguments over both (or neither).
The Wolf
What community is fighting over an eiruv?
What (frum) community is fighting over sports?
Unfortunatly fighting over an Eruv is becoming too common in certain places and sometimes cause people to do averahs when people against the eruv go beyond just an argument
Meno,
What (frum) community is fighting over sports?
Frum communities where there are sports teams that are actually good. Unlike yours, apparently. >:)
How about a machlokes over pickles on marshmallows?
A machlokes about an Eruv is a serious machlokes. In Boro Park, there are some people who feel that you are being mechalel Shabbos!!
A machlokes about sports is unimportant and I assume, that most people don’t have strong feelings toward people that agree with them.What’s the connection between eruv and sports. Even in a no-eruv place, most sports take place in enclosed facilities, and many sports people might engage in on Shabbos don’t raise questions of carrying (e.g. basketball, ping pong, chess). THe halachic issues of sports on Shabbos pertain to bitul Torah, and occasinally doing something that risks digging or smoothing the ground, or creating an injury that draws blood.
The eruv, as it’s name indicates, is supposed to bring Jews together.
OOPs. Its name.
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