I wish to express my own chagrin with the contemporary way of Jewish activity today in the ultra religions communities... well, with a few of the people.
There exists a category of jewish personna called the Sabbath Blaster.
These are the people who ensure you undergo an inquisition as to what you do on sabbath and if you violated any of their number of regulations.
I must say that I took this seriously at one time and even kept the ultra orthodox shabbas for a full year.
No electricity and I even ripped toilet paper and had a years worth of mother prepared Cholent.
It was nice, but in the final analysis, I did not regard this to be the future for myself and I do think that those who do this have their right to do so, but in fact, many impose their belief on many of us.
This includes driving on shabbat which many will inquire about and in some cases will make assertations to your quality as a jew.
Another topic involves working on the sabbath.
I do think this is a personal matter and if you are so close to someone who may be violating sabbath by working in a trinket store or otherwise nonessential pathway for faithful endeavors on the sabbath, maybe you might want to say something. What this comes down to is if it is your best friend or your family member.
Otherwise, I take great offense that someone is 'looking out for me' and wants to tell me to do something otherwise on sabbath.
This includes the dinner party that you go to of a highly 'religious' person who comes across as intimidating when they tell you "do not look that information up on sabbath on your computer".
Another one that got me was the person who attacked a family member of mine who is a medical personell (essential) for working on a few occasional Saturdays.
I mean, who would you think would do your blood work on saturday if you were in the hospital in Tel Aviv? The total arab contingent of Israeli workers?
So this becomes a heresy.
I have this policy. I do my shabbas as I enjoy it. It today involves some computer experiences as well as television. I do turn on and off the lights and I will no longer be ripping the toilet paper the day ahead of time.
I am sad to say we no longer have Cholent though perhaps we could resurrect that once in a while.
But all in all, I feel that the Torah is on my side on this matter and If you think I am the heretic, go read my interests in heresy.
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