Now see Blue Dragon... my response wouldn’t have been so nice.
Anyway, Uriel,
Are silly poems all u got?
Or have you just never experienced “oneg Shabbat?”
Nyeh Nyeh Nyeh
The idea of modern Orthodox law as a burden is short-sighted. If the Creator told you to dig a hole and fill it—would you not be thrilled at having a message from the creator? G-d forbid to liken Jewish observance to Democrat make-work programs (the latter being actual hell,) but to understand Judaism is to live an entire life in service to the Creator. The varsity level is to further understand that His laws are good and enable a Jew to live a truly fulfilling life. But darn, no cell phone on Shabbos, and we don’t roll on Shabbos, either (for Jewish bowlers.)
Bro, if you’re really a Jew contact your local Chabad House and give it a try.
I admit to having some favorable prejudice towards UriÂ’el-2012...and perhaps should have thanked him for his asking if the Sabbath was joy given to us [by Hashem, as he put it], for it was not instituted by men -- or else we cannot trust Moses to have been speaking truth.
It didn't come across to me, that he was saying or intending as much. Rather...there can be some room (if one were to be assuming what else the man may have in mind that has not been said) that as far as Orthodox law does conform to traditions of old, provided those are faithfully enough transmitted to this day & age (?) then those things are likely to be viewed by him as being from God --- and if any regard those things burdensome, then for our own good?
Oo-kay. Why now? Why wait? Is the Jewish Sabbath over with, in your own physical locale?
Are you attempting to bait the man into "using a computer" on the Sabbath day?
Are you trying to bait ME into doing something you may then wag a finger at?
Just what is it...? I do wonder if past Christian witness either of us may have shared, has gotten under your skin.
If so, no real worries, eh? I cannot convert anyone much. So one is safe wherever they are at...
Aah, but the Lord of Lords by his own spirit can, in fact I do believe He must, or else there is no approaching that one who is propitiation of our sins, Him being fully enough so to take all sins of the entire world upon Himself -- if all would but take those to Him.
As the Christ spoke out loud (when He was living on this earth in the genuine form of a man);
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.