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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Shabbat electricity (what is work?)
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Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 20:59:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 23 20:59:17 1984
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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
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