Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!akgua!rjb From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Ann Landers on Judaism Message-ID: <922@akgua.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 08:02:23 EDT Article-I.D.: akgua.922 Posted: Mon Aug 6 08:02:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:30:17 EDT References: <587@ihuxs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 21 Wait a minute... Doesn't the principle hold that if your "ox is in the ditch" on the Sabbath you can haul him out ? I am a Christian ( did I pick this up from Christianity ?) It would seem if this principle is correct that animal (and surely human) life takes precedent over the Law then in emergency situations observant Jews could use the phone, car, etc. Please let's hear from some Orthodox thinkers on this. Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb} AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga (404) 447-3784 ... Cornet 583-3784