Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass...
by emosenkis on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:12AM
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That's correct; I updated my original comment to mention that the Jewish laws of the sabbath aren't meant to apply to non-Jews (there is, however, a large and rather entertaining body of practical discussion of under what conditions, and how explicitly, one can ask a non-Jew to do things on the sabbath that would be forbidden for the asker themself to do).
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Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass...
by Udik on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:18AM
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> practical discussion of under what conditions, and how explicitly, one can ask a non-Jew to do things on the sabbath that would be forbidden for the asker themself to do
If I remember well, one option is "if someone were to do this job, he wouldn't regret it later" (as in he would be paid for that, but that can't be explicitly mentioned).
Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass...
by compsciphd on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:54AM
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in practice, things that are biblibcally prohibited, one cannot ask a non jew to do. only things that are rabbinically prohibited would one be permitted to do (i.e. same people who prohibited, also created a backdoor to permit. I'd also note that in practice its a bit more complicated than this simplification).
Of course one then might get into a debate whether a particular action is rabbinically or bibilically prohibited.