Saturday, March 12, 2011

Lets hear it for the Beatles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must say that today is a challenging day for me. After a full year of what is considered "the proper way" to observe shabbas, I have made a detour. Rather than that I have just dotted my I's in life. So that said, I must say that I realize that a Jew who doesn't refrain from using electricity on shabbas doesn't "look" like he's doing as good in the light of a troubled world. But I say that indeed he is doing the same as one who does keep sabbath this way. Rather, I must admit, I feel like a crazed Beatles' fan in the era of a 1950's anti rock and roll older generation. Its the way of the future and after 15 years, everyone liked the Beatles. But that said, the image of a Jew is very important necessity that everyone should regard as trustworthy unto God. This is Gods way. So lets be frank here. I'm going to probably have to go back to keeping shabbas as an orthodox jew, right? I want to say here that perhaps I will. Perhaps this is a one day affair where I type a lot of stuff, make one of my dear reform friends say "like that" when I post to facebook that you can post on shabbas and perhaps I was just testing the waters. But I am not sure. I will certainly follow up next week and if its meant to be. Let it be. But I did not take my 1996 GMC Gas burning Jimmy for a ride today and I wont smoke a pipe until after the sun is clear of the day. So lets see, I read my comments online on a saturday and I think "it really looks a lot like what a reform Jew is up to in life" but I keep the shabbas laws as I believe they really apply. I am not a reform Jew but I believe in truth, temperance and tolerance and I want to live a kosher life. I want to impress my friends and family by being kosher, but I want to be honest with myself and impress God as well. So it looks like this is the way of the future and I will certainly be a lot less hard on the reform jew who wants to watch the television on saturday and eat a microwave pizza. Thanks! Baruch Hashem!

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