Good question. For the last full year, I have kept the orthodox shabbas as they do to the best that I knew was possible. I didnt turn a light switch and I even separated my toilet paper a day in advance. I did not think it was necessarilly Gods plan for me to work that way but I realized that my people were strong and that we got our strength from Shabbas observance. So I would do the same.
I am not angry today, but I realized that fighting a war against electricity is fighting a war against Life. That is not how we live on Shabbas. But that said, I will still not drive a gas burning automobile on shabbas. That would require the ignition of a flame which to me is still a shabbas violation.
I will go into a long discussion of this in the next post, but I hope that you my readers understand that God is true and that our lives are better in this day and age. We are not combatants of a nuclear deprived generation of kids who dont like to dance on the luau of life. It is a good way to live if you dont use electricity on shabbas, but I profess that working on a computer on shabbas is not indeed a pagan ritual. I was once angered when a reform jew wrote to me on shabbas. I thought, this woman does not care about life. But it was I who was in error. She was meerly trying to be diligent and that is how she was working. I do not wish to start a Jewish civil war between those who keep the ultra orthodox ways and those like my reform Jewish friends who meerly need to make their lives kosher. It is not a good idea to be a heretic and so I will hereby end my one year dance with the disease that has plagued the Jewish people for many eons. The disease of inexactitude. This is a new day and I will enjoy this immensely. So if you like to chat and type on shabbas, go right ahead. It wont destroy the human race and you will still be allowed into heaven. And perhaps they will call you tolerant as well as industrious as well. So this ends my one year off cycle love affair with the word of the rabbis. I did not say that it is the word of God. Thanks!
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