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.

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

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[–]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".

[–]NorfolkTerrier 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

See also: Catholic fishermen convincing everyone that fish doesn't count as meat on Lenten Fridays.

I think that following arbitrary rules can actually be a meaningful religious experience, and I wouldn't knock someone for doing so. It's less about whether this or that action is "bad" somehow, and more about making a symbolic sacrifice of some kind, and putting religious thought into all kinds of random daily behaviors. I'll never understand the loopholes though. Are the people who do this stuff still faithful, and this kind of thought about the rules is just an odd part of the experience? Or do they just not care? If they don't care, why go to all the trouble to make what you're doing fit within the rules?

[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The second half of the Talmud is basically a long list of ways to get around the laws of the first half.

There's a reason God took away their knowledge of his name.

[–]EdwardGShitlordEsq 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They have been trying to cheat God ever since Exodus. They will never change.

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

The ones that do are called 'Christians'. Saved.

[–]mekelraptor 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

But they can travel on water during Shabba so some orthodox Jews sit on bottles of water while driving car. It is beyond laughable how childishly Jews (and Muslims BTW) treat their god.

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

wonder if they let me put one up across the entire city for my relegion? might as well call it new israel...or unites states of israel

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

Kikes are shifty creatures.

[–]aThievingStableboy 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

adfgs

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

Did you come to hate them?

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

now remember there are, for jews, TWO paths to get god to return

1) be holy

2) be utterly degenerate.

In either case, it has to be total. Now look at the porn industry, drugs, moloch worship, satan symbolism in media and wonder, 'which path did the non-zionists choose?'

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's called an Eruv. Every major city has at least one eruv that covers several square miles. The line must be unbroken and must have certain types of supports that anchor it to the ground. In reality it's a string they run up along the telephone poles by the wires.

Here's a map of the manhattan eruv, which "encloses" most of manhattan: https://images.shulcloud.com/634/uploads/manhattan-eruv.jpg

For comparison here's the one in northern Dallas: http://i1.wp.com/www.toraschaimdallas.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Eruv.jpg

[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

what would happen if 'activists' sabotaged the eruv mid morning. Would there be panic?

[–]Dr_Bukkake 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Or orrrrrr you could get rid of archaic rules that no longer serve a purpose in modern times. Like why go through all of that bullshit?

[–]refvgee 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

thats awfully antisemitic, goy

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

They believe their god is real, and they enjoy getting around the rules.

You should check out chabad.org sometimes, to get a feel for the faithful (of the synagogue of satan)

[–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"God told use to not carry things outside on the Shabbat. What should we do?"

puts a single string overhead

"Ha! Checkmate God! You're such an idiot!"

If you don't want to follow your religion, then don't. Making up some nonsensical new rule so you're still following the rules while not really following the rules is just self-deluded narcissism.

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

such goofy religious nonsense.