http://north-shore-times.whereilive.com.au/news/story/renewed-jewish-push-for-st-ives-enclosure/

ORTHODOX Jews in St Ives could be freed up to leave their homes on the Sabbath and other holy days if a proposal to create a religious zone ringing the suburb is approved by Ku-ring-gai Council.

The Jewish community wants to create the zone, known as an eruv.

Once physically inside this zone, orthodox Jews would be able to do otherwise forbidden activities such as pushing and carrying objects including car keys and tissues.

So, let me get this straight: God says you’re not allowed to do.. well, pretty much fucking anything on the Sabbath. But some clever bastards worked out that you’re actually allowed to do some things within your own home, and then some other clever bastards worked out that if you do this trick with a bit of string, then God will think that the entire neighbourhood is, technically and according to the laws He laid out, your home.

So here’s my question: Why has no clever bastard worked out that, by setting one of these things up in his backyard, with a diameter of a few inches, and specifying that everything inside the perimeter is actually outside the eruv, and vice-versa, then the entire fucking world is your home (bar that little circle) and you can do what you fucking please, be it Saturday or Sunday or whatever?