Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!minow From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Shabbat electricity (what is work?) Message-ID: <77@decvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 20:59:17 EDT Article-I.D.: decvax.77 Posted: Sun Sep 23 20:59:17 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 05:16:07 EDT References: <1520@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group Lines: 12 When I was a child, my family had a summer home in Union Pier, Michigan. On at least one occasion, I was sent next door to turn on the heat (or perhaps it was a light or an oven) because it was Sabbath Eve and the observant family forgot. If it is "work" to turn on a lamp on the Sabbath, is it not also work to ask someone else to turn that lamp on? Martin Minow decvax!minow