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Similarly, Shabbat mode on kitchen appliances (1). I do wonder, however, whether there are dedicated individuals within religious organizations that assess a g
by xattt 4y ago
Similarly, Shabbat mode on kitchen appliances (1).
I do wonder, however, whether there are dedicated individuals within religious organizations that assess a given spiritual framework and consider workarounds for things that might be dangerous to the health of their religious community.
(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode
- BearOso 4y agoWow. That's pedantic. It strikes me that if you're deriving whether an action is safe for your religion based on a technicality like "a signal light turns on", then either: 1. Your religion needs to lighten up a bit. I doubt any deity cares about small technical details like that. or 2. You're in violation of rules anyway. The intent is still there, so even if you're using a loophole, there's no practical difference between those two actions. Both you and whatever deity know you're committing an offense.
- Eisenstein 4y agoThere are religious scholars in Judaism who deal with these issues -- you aren't the first to question it and your concerns are enumerated and addressed thoroughly.
- lmm 4y agoThe Jewish belief is explicitly contrary to that: whether you obey the letter of the rule is what matters, not the intention of it, and this is as God wills it.
- joenot443 4y agoI don’t think there are many Orthodox Jews out there who haven’t heard some variation of those two points countless times in their lives. I think your apparent belief that there’s any amount of novelty in what you wrote is actually a lot more telling here.
- midoridensha 4y agoThis whole discussion strikes me as pure insanity.