Sherlock Holmes

I will report here that I believed I was holier than the average human being becuase I did not use electricity on shabbas. It was a fool's mistake. I thought that God invented gasoline to burn but not to pour down the front of your igloo. Right. Just kidding. I realized that the invention of electricity was by man and man alone. Right? No of course not. Clearlyi God made the universe in that you might use electricity. And clearly God knew this when he gave us Torah. If Torah said do not even make a spark on shabbas we would know that electricity was to be forbidden. It does not. It says a flame. And a flame and a spark are not synonymous. So if you do make a spark on your way to the bathroom on your fine shag carpet when you were bitter cold in the winter and everything was bone dry in your home, you did not violate the sabbath. Neither did you if you accidentally turned on the lamp. And since this is so true, don't fret what you are doing on shabbas I say. And another word of advice. The torah does not detail the laws of mukzeh. True shabbas is holy and must be kept separate. But that is not true of the objects on shabbas. Don't touch your dogs bone on sabbath but if you are going to watch television the remote control is mukzeh. Now truly keeping electricity out of shabbas makes a clear distinction between shabbas and the work week. We need a real separation. But its really fire that we don't want to do and work for profit. You are permitted to move the dining room table on shabbas. So why not turn on the lamps as well. I'm just saying that not everything is so one sided and top heavy in life. Shabbas is to be enjoyed, not a time of trepidation because you might hit the lights or a feeling of resentment becuase you have a television set and don't watch it while your non shabbas orientated friends do watch television and use their computeres. This took me a while to get but its the God's truth. Be good and have a life. I do not wish to anger my Creator and I do not feel God is angry. If anything, I feel that God is happy and feels like he can relieve himself after a very long trip by automobile or whatever you may travel upon these days. So be good and make God happy. Do not be a pagan fool, a terrorist or a heretic. Be a Jew and be Jewish. And if you want to turn the television on and watch football on saturday, I'm going to be there to tell you that you can indeed do so. You didn't think that God created NCAA football for only the gentiles did you?