Why we’re not allowed to use electricity on Shabbat?

You can tell they are truly in love. He respects her so much. Totally smitten!

When he was young, my father (not Jewish) lived next to an elderly rabbi and his wife. The couple would constantly forget on Shabbat about turning lights on and off so my dad was often called to go and help them😂 They were a very wonderful couple and my whole family still speaks very highly of them more than 40 years later.

I'm telling you I don't know you guys I've already said this before but I love you what a beautiful family oh may the Lord God bless you continuously and draw you closer and closer to him

Someone had to decide that electricity is fire though. Certainly they weren’t turning on electric devices in the Temple.

I'm new to Sabbath keeping and am learning. I heard about not using electricity on the Sabbath because of Exodus 35:3, "Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.” But a quick Google search reveals that electricity and fire are two completely different things: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is all the difference in the world between electricity and fire. Fire is the result of a chemical reaction, a chemical reaction that produces heat and light. Not all chemical reaction produce heat and light and some only produce heat and some only produce light. Electricity is the result of charged particles either in motion (an electrical current) or not (static electricity). In most cases for a fire to start there must be a quantity of heat energy available to get the chemical reaction started. Once started the chemical reaction can sustain itself until it runs out of fuel or oxygen. In most cases an electrical current will produce heat and if it produces enough heat it can start the combustion process and there is a fire. Static electricity can produce a lot of heat when it discharges. The best example of this is lightening. This too can start a fire. So, electricity can start a fire only if it produces enough heat to get the chemical reaction going. But the two, electricity and fire, are still very, very different from each other." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to this, flipping a light switch and manually starting a fire are not in the same category as far as work would be considered. For instance it actually would take more effort to stand up from your seat and walk over to a light switch than it would to flip the light switch on/off. So on either front (physically turning on an electrical device or the use of electricity) I currently see no biblical reason why electricity cannot be used on the Sabbath. I would love to hear other people's insight on the matter. Like I said, I am new to this and want to observe the Sabbath based on biblical truth instead of man-made tradition. Thanks!

I didn't know they had electricity in the temple times wow

Lmaaao that’s why my best friend was trapped in a hotel room on Saturday and we thought he was kidnapped

How do you have all these rules added on to LAW that teaches to NOT add or take away from the LAW. Your petty rules and your attempts to get around them DO NOT glorify the HOLY SABBATH!!!

When you say you can't do anything that "was done in the temple", do mean modern or the ancient temple?

Nowhere in the Bible does it say a person can't use electricity on the 7th day Sabbath. The commandment is to not kindle a fire on the sabbath day and to not buy and sell on the sabbath day.

Is this based on a spiritual interpretation on the analogy of fire or is this there a scientific argument for it too? Very interesting concept

Shalom, Beautiful family, I love that you share your Jewish life with the world!!💙 Respectfully asking, which scripture this shabbat law is derived from because the only one I found was in Exodus 35:3 which reads, “You are not to kindle a fire in any of your homes on Shabbat.” In Temple days, “kindling” a fire really was actual work whereas flipping a switch nowadays is not work. Also, it is my understanding that fire is used to light shabbat and havdalah candles. I’m confused. Do you mind clarifying?

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How do you heat your home on Shabbat?

So if it’s shabbat you either have to keep the light on or off the whole day?

do u guys control the banks

Impossible to take this seriously

I’m learning, please correct me. How do you keep warm in the winter? I was told; that if a light is on before, or as you begin Shabbat keep it on for the duration and don’t flick it off or on until after Shabbat. I was told that the same thing applies to the heat for the house. I was told that keep one or two lights on dim light, but don’t touch them until Shabbat ends and don’t touch the other lights but I was told that for all other electronics to shut them off i.e. phone, TV, computer.

Shalom Aleichem! Vocês são um casamento tam lindo! Obrigado pela lição. Shalom, Shalom.

So in reality there was no Electricity in the temple. Fire and Electricity are two different things