Re:The Manhattan Eruv
by jrochkind1 on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:12PM
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I'm not religious either, but perhaps it is not about "fooling" God, it is about showing God (or... something) respect. We care enough to do something special, with intention, to honor the sabbath. Perhaps the things we do to treat the sabbath special are in fact what make it special, it is a choice to make it special in those ways; you don't even need to believe in God for that interpretation, although you still can.
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Why not just follow the rules then? It's like saying you respect your boss so much you always put in your 8 hours...but you don't do any work, you just punch in, sit idle, then punch out.
Re:The Manhattan Eruv
by jrochkind1 on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:56PM
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Perhaps God is not like a boss. The respect is exactly in spending the energy to do things differently on the sabbath, the point of the sabbath is to do things differently. The complicated rules are, arguably, the point.