Saturday, April 2, 2011
Unscrewing the lightbulb in your refridgerator on Shabbas
I actually unscrewed the light bulbs on my refridgerator today. I was accepting that I will use shabbas electricity. I noticed that items that were muktzah were no longer really annoying me not to be touched. So I ended up in the kitchen. I unscrewed the light bulb on my refridgerator. I felt more healthy and happier. I guess electricity is not off limits on shabbas for me. But that said, I don't think I'm going to just randomly turn on the lights or anything of the sort unless I really need that appliance etc. Its still not the most happy measure for your soul to see an electrical connection made on shabbas. That said, I am not a militant extremist. If the use of electricity will put my mind at ease on shabbas. I will write my note on heresy and good fortune or otherwise make a change of the radio or whatever and so forth. This makes sense to me and now when they ask me how well I keep shabbas, I will just say that I unscrew the lights on my refridgerator. That will give the people who want to think I am "perfect" what they want and to the one's who don't keep that tradition, it will open up the floor for discussion. Neat huh?
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Update,
We no longer turn off and unscrew the light bulb on shabbas. It just did not need to be attended.
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