Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!pegasus!naiman From: naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: When the Sabbath can be desecrated Message-ID: <1579@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 11:17:12 EDT Article-I.D.: pegasus.1579 Posted: Thu Aug 9 11:17:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:18:00 EDT References: <108@faron.UUCP> utcsrgv.5009 <338@houxb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 16 > 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. -- ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259 Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, ...]!pegasus!naiman