Don't you think that a higher power would fail to be hoodwinked by such a contract? It's obvious that it's simply a method to try and cheat the system ...
If this sort of action is considered acceptable to your passover obligations then I'd find it hard to not to just settle on "I'm treating these things like they don't exist until passover is finished". Your intent is the same.
Attempts to exploit a loophole religious belief seems pretty odd to me, considering it is supposed to be the law of God, not the local town ordinance.
Then there are things like the Shabbat elevator. If God didn't want you to push a elevator button, then I doubt making an elevator without buttons is a clever enough ruse to fool a omnipotent being.
Sorry, having very little exposure to Jewish beliefs I just view the whole thing with significant curiosity ...
Thanks for the information though. Time to go spend some time reading on ol' wikipedia :)
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:26 pm (UTC)Don't you think that a higher power would fail to be hoodwinked by such a contract? It's obvious that it's simply a method to try and cheat the system ...
If this sort of action is considered acceptable to your passover obligations then I'd find it hard to not to just settle on "I'm treating these things like they don't exist until passover is finished". Your intent is the same.
Attempts to exploit a loophole religious belief seems pretty odd to me, considering it is supposed to be the law of God, not the local town ordinance.
Then there are things like the Shabbat elevator. If God didn't want you to push a elevator button, then I doubt making an elevator without buttons is a clever enough ruse to fool a omnipotent being.
Sorry, having very little exposure to Jewish beliefs I just view the whole thing with significant curiosity ...
Thanks for the information though. Time to go spend some time reading on ol' wikipedia :)