Distinguished Lubavitch Rav
Rabbi Meir Greenberg and the Large-City Eruv Proclamation of 5739
Rabbi Meir Greenberg's name is printed on the Kislev 5739 proclamation opposing proposed eruvin in New York and other large cities.
A large-city ruling with Lubavitch Rabbonim
The proclamation restates the Manhattan prohibition and applies it to every large city with the same halachic conditions. Rabbi Greenberg's name appears among leading Rabbonim from New York and beyond.
Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dworkin is also named and identified as Av Beis Din of Lubavitch. Their inclusion places Lubavitch Rabbonim within a much broader rabbinic warning about reshus harabim and public reliance in a metropolis.
From the large-city ruling to Crown Heights
The Crown Heights Rabbonim later cite the established position of Rabbi Dworkin and the leading poskim headed by Rav Moshe. The 5739 proclamation supplies one surviving public expression of that earlier setting.
The direct Crown Heights ruling goes further by addressing the neighborhood itself. It says that no valid eruv exists within its boundaries and prohibits carrying on Shabbos and Yom Kippur.
The printed-name page
The available reproduction contains Rabbi Greenberg's name as typeset text, not as a visible handwritten signature. The page is used according to what it shows: a collective proclamation circulated with his printed inclusion.