Re: Proposal To Curtail Commercial Activity on Shabbat in Israel

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:27:16 +0000 (UTC), hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Herman Rubin) wrote:


But everyone has the right to shop on shabbat if the store owner wans
to keep his store open. No one has forced stores to open on shabbat.
For the most part, those which do are inundated with customers, so the
demand is there.

"Halakhic" laws do not generally affect Gentiles in
Israel. Buses in Muslim areas run on Shabbath. To
the extent that there are Shabbath laws now in Israel,
Druze police, who are exempt from such laws, are used
to find and cite the offenders. So all such laws
discriminate against Jews. A Jewish state proposes
to INCREASE discrimination against Jews!

I see your point, Herman, but I think this law would mandate the
closure of all businesses regardless of the religion of the
proprietor. So it would be a secular law informed by halacha, but not
halacha per se.

Now you've got me wondering whether such a law wouldn't be
inappropriate from a religious standpoint because, if the above is
correct, it could be seen as putting gentiles in the way of observing
shabbos.

Andy Katz
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