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From: naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: When the Sabbath can be desecrated
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 11:17:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 11:17:12 1984
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> 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
> someone the next day, I don't think that I could use the argument
> that I did not actually pull the trigger!
> 
> Herman Silbiger


I seem to recall that in Jewish law there IS an actual difference
between someone who kills and someone who causes ("geromoh") someone
to be killed, but doesn't actually do it with his/her hand.
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==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259
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