Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!houxb!hrs From: hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: When the Sabbath can be desecrated Message-ID: <338@houxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 09:59:33 EDT Article-I.D.: houxb.338 Posted: Thu Aug 9 09:59:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:14:27 EDT References: <108@faron.UUCP> utcsrgv.5009 Lines: 8 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