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Rules of Orthodox Judaism

posted 9 years ago by Sitcom_Sally
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I don't want to post this on the Religion board because they mostly discuss issues like homosexuality or troll, often both. I figured this issue also deals with history, and people on this board usually take things a little more seriously.

So, unless there's an ex-orthodox Jew posting here I won't get much of a response until sundown tomorrow. I started reading online about some of the rules to follow and what they mean today and wondered if anyone is knowledgeable enough to discuss the issue. Im not arguing for or against orthodoxy but curious about some logic of some rules as they've been applied to modern changes in technology and wondering how people who do consider themselves orthodox handle it all.

I had a lot of classmates in high school who were Jewish, but can remember only one who was orthodox for certain. He spent a summer on a kibbutz and was allowed to grow a beard.

Some of the things I'm curious about are the rules like no lighting or putting out a fire and the fact that now it applies to electricity. The use of sabbath clocks. Actually, I have a lot of questions. Any takers?

(And now I'm signing off because I'm tired so I won't be back to reply until tomorrow.)

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[–] delriosong 9 years ago

Although it doesn't feel like it. I still have my 2 sons living at home and struggling.

I understand and am in a similar boat. I have three at home even though I'm 53. My oldest is 20 and the little ones, a daughter and another son, are 14 and 12, so I don't have the life I Riley exactly, although I have no worries.

My oldest son's plan is to spend the rest of this year trying to get world class at some freaking online video game so he can play e-Sports for a living. If that fails he is going to get the one college class he needs to be eligible to join the military, work for a couple of years as a civilian, selling cars and smoking a lot of pot, then quit drugs, join the Army and do all the stupid shyte I did to get all broke up. 

Not the best plan. He, like I was, is intelligent enough to get any job. I went Infantry because I was an adrenaline junkie and pursued Fun, Travel, and Adventure. So whatever, my life worked out pretty great. I spent 73% of my career in the 82D Airborne Division and it seemed like everyone else back then was there forever as well. To us it was like there was the 82D Airborne Division and then there was the rest of the Army, which we sometimes had to come into contact with. None of us could stand big Army. 

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