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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: When the Sabbath can be desecrated
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 22:20:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 22:20:50 1984
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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!)
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