Why would Orthodox Jews go out after dark on the Sabbath anyway? They would have to walk everywhere and then there are traffic signals with pedestrian lights that have to be activated.
Methinks this is a couple who are litiginous. If they are devout then keeping the Sabbath is more important than a hallway light. I suspect they are not devout Orthodox Jews.
David Duke freelances for the _Daily Mail_? Who knew?
It’s very debatable if just triggering a motion sensor is forbidden.
“The question is this: someone does something on Shabbat which is, in itself, permitted—like dragging a chair along the earth. All he intends to do is to move the chair. But while he is doing so he may be making a furrow in the ground. And making a furrow is forbidden on Shabbat, either as a subsidiary case of building or of plowing, two of the categories of forbidden labor.”
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2096/jewish/The-Practical-Implications-of-Infinity.htm
Let them hang a rope ladder from a window, they won’t have to pass a light sensor that way!
Gee, I thought orthodox Jews were not supposed to move more then 200 feet from their residence on the Sabbath. It hardly seems the light makes much difference.
Really makes one want to become Jewish, doesn’t it? And these are God’s “chosen people”?
What kind of light was in place before the motion sensing light?
Is this inside a hallway or on the exterior of the building?
"Fire" is rapid oxidation that emits heat and light. The filament is, by design, sealed within a low-pressure, inert atmosphere specifically to prevent oxidation. Since oxidation cannot occur, "fire" cannot occur.
Turning on an incandescent lamp (or exciting a fluorescent phosphor) IS NOT "creating 'fire'".
Actually their bigger problem is treating the mind-burps of a bunch of technically-ignorant archaic geezers sitting around trying to dream up "fences to protect the Law" as if their pronouncements themselves are Divine Law -- when they are not...
Besides, the #1 Expert on the Law said, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27)
The Colemans lose (in more ways than one...)
There are always going to be these quirky things in religion.
Britain has a lot to worry about with encroaching take over of Islam and the use of such to stifle such human rights as free speech and thought; e.g., Michael Savage, and a Brit paper is bellyaching over this?
Aren't there many funny things that go through courts anyway?
Anti-Semites are smashing Jews faces in in subways and double deckers in Britain and I should care about this? I don't think so and neither should Britain so much!