Saturday, March 12, 2011

Industrial Revolution meets Batman and all is well in Gotham City

I must say that I am a Jew who has kept the shabbas as a fully orthdox Jew to the best of my knowledge as we are taught by the books and shabbas manuals.... save for playing a musical instrument.  I think I did well.  I feel blessed and healthy. But lets face it, there was an industrial revolution and it effects not just sunday through friday morning but Friday night and Saturday as well.   Saturday and Friday night I have purposely capitalized in the previous sentence and I purposely made little of the days from sunday through friday morning. They are not as important as Shabbas.  But that said, I do profess that shabbas is not denigrated by the idea that you can indeed keep it without refraining from an electrical usage. It is not smart to make it a day of electricity celebration, but so too dont run around and destroy your own integrity by worrying incessantly about a single act such as placing a light switch on "on" after it was "off".  The industrial revolution is a fact of life and we can not change the times in which God chose to introduce ourselves to the history of civlization.  So I must say that how I feel today is that I am keenly aware of the industrial revolutions effect on my own life and that I must ascribe that it is indeed God's choice that we enjoy a world with its priviledges.  This includes Thomas Edison's invention any day of the week.  Get it.  Good.  Lets get back to the Batman and Robin show.  I really hope that they do get that Joker.  Thanks!

1 comment:

C.J. Brenner said...

Its just a different day. I can't say that I am glad to be in a world of electricity on shabbas. I'm really not. I do like that I dont have to fret if I dont toe the line as perfectly as the rabbi on television or the rabbi in the hall of rabbi's hall of fame. So I am good, you are good. We are all Good and we can get on with our day. I am really struggling with how this makes me feel but I know it is making God happy to see us really grasp the cards and hold on tight. Thanks!