Compete abstinence from work for 24 hours can be tricky when work is broadly defined (although that will depend on your rabbi). This has led to a few work arounds. Take the Shabbat elevator - pressing the button would be work, so the solution is a lift which stops automatically on every other floor - annoying I imagine if you live high up. The Shabbat mobile phone is also on the market - I'm told that there is a chance (very small though it may be) that your call may not connect (there is some setting which means one time in a thousand or something the call won't connect). If it may or may not connect, apparently that puts it more in the leisure than work bracket.
When quizzed a recent covert said that God may have given the 600 or mishvot, but he gave no guidance on compliance, so it can be about the letter rather than spirit of the thing.
We were told about a newly arrived diplomat who made the mistake of driving through an ultra orthodox Jewish area of Jerusalem on Shabbat. The story ends with her car literally being stoned and a rescue car having to be sent by the Embassy.
When quizzed a recent covert said that God may have given the 600 or mishvot, but he gave no guidance on compliance, so it can be about the letter rather than spirit of the thing.
We were told about a newly arrived diplomat who made the mistake of driving through an ultra orthodox Jewish area of Jerusalem on Shabbat. The story ends with her car literally being stoned and a rescue car having to be sent by the Embassy.
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