The mixing storm in the Crown Heights neighborhood:
After the topic of “mixing in the big cities” made headlines recently following attempts to perform mixing in a variety of ways, Rabbi Shalom Duber Levin publishes a special response he received from Rabbi King Mashiach on the topic of mixing.
As is well known, the Rebbe’s opinion was strongly against the installation of an irov in large cities due to the consequences of establishing an irov in the possession of such large rabbis, this is beyond the halachic possibility of performing an irov in such a large city.
From this answer, several new details regarding the issue of mixing in New York in general and Crown Heights in particular are understood:
• A city that has Shishim Rabua, which is the majority authority from Daurita, is not suitable for mixing at all
• In a city that does not have a Shishim Rabou, it is advisable to do the mixing there on the condition that this is not advertised at all
• Even this instruction of the Rebbe itself, should be followed, but should not be published in a Torah file