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    Electricity on Shabbat refers to the various rules and opinions regarding the use of electrical devices by Jews who observe Shabbat. Various rabbinical...
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    prohibited on Shabbat Electricity on Shabbat Driving on Shabbat Paternoster elevator Bannett, D. R. The Sabbath Elevator Question, Elevators and Shabbat, The...
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    multiple violations of the prohibited activities on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath). Though Jewish law is based on texts that were written long before the existence...
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    with electricity. Under the bear's hat is a black shell that turns to completely hide the lightbulb. There are various Jewish laws governing Shabbat lamps...
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    June 2016. Rabbi Michael Broyde & Rabbi Howard Jachter, The Use of Electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tov, part II, section A. Journal of Halacha & Contemporary...
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  • In Jewish religious law (halakha), Jews are commanded to rest on Shabbat, and refrain from performing certain types of work. Some of the activities are...
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    KosherSwitch (category Shabbat innovations)
    institutions servicing this market, as a means of controlling electricity on-demand on Shabbat and Jewish holidays in a manner that is permissible according...
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    Shabbat (UK: /ʃəˈbæt/, US: /ʃəˈbɑːt/, or /ʃəˈbʌt/; Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, romanized: Šabbāṯ, [ʃa'bat], lit. 'rest' or 'cessation') or the Sabbath (/ˈsæbəθ/)...
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  • activities of Shabbat Conservative halakha Driving on Shabbat Electricity on Shabbat Eruv, a boundary used on Shabbat Eve of Passover on Shabbat Sabbath desecration...
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  • In Judaism, a person who is shomer Shabbat or shomer Shabbos (plural shomré Shabbat or shomrei Shabbos; Hebrew: שומר שבת, "Sabbath observer", sometimes...
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  • Jewish law identifies as prohibited by biblical law on Shabbat. These activities are also prohibited on the Jewish holidays listed in the Torah ("Yom Tov")...
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    cycle automatically on the Sabbath, though they are operated by buttons during the week.[citation needed] Electricity on Shabbat Shabbat elevator Dundes,...
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    Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (category Articles having same image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    published work, Meorei Esh, was the first ever written on the subject of using electricity on Shabbat.[citation needed] He was the brother-in-law of Rabbi...
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  • electricity on Shabbat, so long as the use of this electricity did not violate any melakha, Shabbat-prohibited activity. This decision was based on an...
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  • Jewish law, among them the use of electricity on Shabbat, infertility, and owning pets. His many columns and lectures on topics in Halakha, Aggadah, and...
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    Shabbos App (category Shabbat innovations)
    prohibited on Shabbat Electricity on Shabbat § Computers and similar appliances Rabbinically prohibited activities of Shabbat Shomer Shabbat Erik Schechter...
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    Gallup. (October 23, 2014). "The Crazy New Invention for Using Electricity on Shabbat." Archived 2015-04-28 at the Wayback Machine Jewniverse. (April...
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    by Yonason Bloch and Herbert Klein. Electricity on Shabbat 39 categories of activity prohibited on Shabbat Shabbat clock Bloch, Yonason; Klein, Herbert...
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    number 2 (2015): pages 169–222. "The Crazy New Invention for Using Electricity on Shabbat." Archived 2015-04-28 at the Wayback Machine Jewniverse. (April...
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    observing the Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat in Hebrew). The tractate focuses primarily on the categories and types of activities prohibited on the Sabbath according...
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    or Shabbat (from Hebrew שַׁבָּת Šabbāṯ) is a day set aside for rest and worship. According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the...
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    use of electricity on Shabbat. He also allowed community members to ride to the synagogue on Shabbat with the intention of fulfilling the Shabbat mitzvot...
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    Cholent (category Shabbat food)
    activities prohibited on Shabbat by the written Torah. Therefore, cooked Shabbat food must be prepared before the onset of the Jewish Shabbat at sunset Friday...
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    Conservative Jews, Shabbat is the seventh day of the Jewish week and is a day of rest in Judaism. Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening...
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  • service, on contemporary criteria for the determination of death, on electricity and Shabbat, gene editing, lab-grown meat, and artificial intelligence. Together...
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    Israel (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    five-day workweek), or Friday (for a six-day workweek). In observance of Shabbat, in places where Friday is a work day and the majority of population is...
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  • producing electricity to be a violation of Shabbat, no matter who produces it. Additionally, some Karaites view the purchasing of electricity that is charged...
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    place during the Jewish holidays of Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret on Shabbat, and one day after the 50th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur...
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    Judaism (section Shabbat)
    revelation, and redemption. Shabbat, the weekly day of rest lasting from shortly before sundown on Friday night to nightfall on Saturday night, commemorates...
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    music on the bus was avoided, and advertisements were censored. The Bnei Brak municipality set up an alternative water supply, for use on Shabbat and Jewish...
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