Driving a car for the Sabbath

Posted by Bruce - in Blog, Faith - No Comments

MY  COMMENTS ARE NOT MEANT TO DISPARAGE THOSE THAT ARE OBSERVANT

BUT OPEN THE DISCUSSION.

KINDLE A FIRE

I’m not a Torah Scholar although I would love to play one in a movie but I can’t understand why it would be a sin for me to drive a sickly person home on the Sabbath. I fully understand (see following paragraph) why many of the faithful won’t drive on the Sabbath and respect their views but if we won’t drive those that are sick they may never get to hear the word of G-D during the Sabbath. If we made them walk and struggle to get to the Shul wouldn’t we in turn be making them work on the Sabbath because it’s such an arduous task for them? Isn’t it a Mitzvah to help those who are trying to observe the faith?

KINDLE A FIRE ON SABBATH- Is prohibited according to the Torah. This ruling has been interrupted by many a Torah Scholar (which I am not) to mean you can’t drive on the Sabbath because you create a “spark” when you turn on your car. I interrupt it more literal in the sense that the way you kindle a fire is the way they did when the Torah was given with two sticks or even matches and that fire was used only to keep warm or cook a hot meal. On the Sabbath therefore I won’t light a fireplace but would be willing to start anything that has electricity. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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