TIL since it is forbidden for Jews to carry certain objects in public during Shabbat, many cities have installed lines in the air, enclosing the city, making the entire city count as private domain and thus making it allowed to carry among other things, house keys, tissues, medication, and babies.

submitted by Jashfior from en.wikipedia.org

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]aThievingStableboy 12 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 5 fun -  (9 children)

adfgsf

[–]galaxybrain 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

It can also be very wasteful. Light bulbs that stay on, and you simply cover and uncover the bulb, for example

[–]gameMaker 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Religion is so strange. How can that possibly help or mean anything?

[–]Canbot 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

it is supposed to be restrictive to keep them from cheating. The point is to get you to talk to your family and neighbors. Build a community. Reflect on religion, your life, all the important things you don't have time to think about. If the rule was simply to do those things it would be brushed off as, well I just though about it and now I can go back to watching Game of Thrones. So instead they make everything else "illegal". If you are going to cheat you might as well not even be religious.

[–]dissent 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

exactly. I mean seriously. If the whole city is cheating, just give up.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's like u/sayitagain said. If these are meant to be the commandments of an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful God, I'd have to think that only people who weren't taking that concept seriously in the first place would even consider this.

I'm just some arsehole sitting in front of a computer and I have the wherewithal to see through this ruse... If there's a super being that created the earth and judges the souls of all men, you think he's looking at those bits of string and saying: "Woah... Woah, wait a second! Is that... Are those people inside?! I guess they are inside. Wow, that's a huge private house. A lot of people have smaller houses inside that private place. Man, I'm so baffled by this."

[–]sodomytron 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"religion" you mean judaism

[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That is more work than flipping the switch. And why not just have motion sensors?

[–]galaxybrain 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not about work, it's about lighting a fire or something. The motion sensor would cause you to be the trigger for that "fire".

If there any Jews around here, maybe they can attempt to explain. Seems silly to me.

[–]Real_OJ_Simpson 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm religiously Christian, but a lot of my family is Jewish so I see this kinda thing sometimes. Like /u/Canbot explained above, the point is to force you to take a break from the daily grind and connect with family/community. They're not necessarily theological laws such that "if you don't do xyz God will punish you".