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Wow. 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",
by BearOso 4y ago
Wow. 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.