Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!down!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: When the Sabbath can be desecrated Message-ID: <1050@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 22:20:50 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1050 Posted: Thu Aug 9 22:20:50 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 04:32:08 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 22 References: Sorry, previous memo broke in the middle. The rest: >> It seems to me that activating answering machines and timers to >> turn on lights during the Sabbath is just circumventing the >> commandements. If I rig some apparatus to fire a gun to kill >> soeone the next day, I don't think that I could use the argument >> that I did not actually pull the trigger! >> Herman Silbiger Herman Silbiger's quote suggests that one is trying to avoid the responsibility for one's intentions. That is not correct, and I am sure that under Jewish law one could not avoid a charge of murder by rigging an apparatus to fire a gun at a later time. One may intend to have light on the Sabbath; one may not actually work during the Sabbath to achieve it. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison