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Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful and the Rabbinic Proclamation Concerning Eruvin in New York
Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful appears in the rabbinic notices concerning eruvin in New York and Brooklyn in 5739. In the Hebrew proclamation, his name is accompanied by a short separate declaration, giving a direct statement of his position beyond the printed list.
His statement in the Hebrew proclamation
The Hebrew notice Azharah Chamurah Neged Tikkun Eruvin B'New York contains the principal proclamation, a printed list of Rabbonim, and separate statements by Rabbi Yaakov Kassin and Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful.
Rabbi Harari-Raful's statement reads:
אני מצטרף לדעת חכמי ישראל
I join the opinion of the sages of Israel.
His name is printed directly beneath that sentence. In context, the statement joins the broad ruling printed on the same page against establishing the proposed eruvin in New York and Brooklyn.
This is a first-person printed endorsement attributed to Rabbi Harari-Raful. It is not a visible handwritten autograph. The surviving page is a later facsimile of the printed proclamation, so the two facts should be kept distinct.
His name in the wider notice
Rabbi Harari-Raful also appears among the seventy-three printed names in the English newspaper reproduction concerning the Flatbush eruv. That notice declares that an eruv should not be established in any neighborhood of New York or Brooklyn and that an eruv's construction would not make carrying permissible.
The English reproduction and the Hebrew proclamation are separate printed notices. The Hebrew notice is especially important for Rabbi Harari-Raful because it preserves a statement under his own name in addition to the collective list.
The larger halachic and historical setting belongs with the Brooklyn rabbinic proclamations and the page on Rav Moshe Feinstein.