shabbat

And for those of us who can easily find something to do on a rainy ~~Sunday~~ Shabbat afternoon?

That said, if you ask Orthodox Jews, they will say it's not circumventing the laws about shabbat.

To circumvent the law would be to find a way that allows us to work on shabbat.

For example [1] which is a phone for use on shabbat and uses capactive buttons to avoid closing a circuit.

* You can't light fire on shabbat and, by some logic, that also means you can't close an electrical circuit.

Rather, it's keeping the laws of shabbat -- avoiding all forms of work -- while still living in the modern world.

Now, if there's a brown-out for say 3h and you're not allowed to interact with that thing until Shabbat is over, you..

We have seudah shlishit, I thought, precisely because on days other than Shabbat people ate only two meals.

It's common to see religious people going to the synagogue in raincoats in the Shabbat in neighbourhoods with a large Jewish community.

Or 'I don't care about Shabbat all that much, but try to avoid grain based stuff during Passover' etc.

Yeah, there are some elevators in Israel that do this on shabbat.

We make a device, and have a Shabbat version.

"God" doesn't necessarily mean one that cares what you ate on Friday.....or if you pushed the elevator buttons on Shabbat.

"The same philosophy goes for networking" - I can imagine quite a few real philosophers getting offended about the belittling of their profession "One good conversation is better than five quick ones every day of the week" - not the Shabbat!

There were debates over this, and many Conservative rabbis argue that it's totally OK to use electricity on Shabbat.

Non-Jews are not required to keep the Shabbat, but Jews can not ask them to do things for them.

For 2,000 years, Jews have avoided anything having to do with light or fire on Shabbat.