Day of rest exceptions in Judaism

[Rachie]

This will be short. I was wondering in the Bible the Old Testatment/Torah we are commanded to rest on the day of rest. Christians still go by that law in the large. However, I am tending to thinking in Judaism they may have some exceptions to this rule. For me for example I am diagnosed with anorexia and sometimes have fell into situation where I have needed to buy some grocies on the day of rest. I have quite a number of health issues. I also have an allergy to dust mites, bug bugss and need to shake my bed everyday. Now in the time of the Bible these allergy didn't exist and many more conditions so I am thinking Jewish law have captured this and made some exceptions.

This could help this issue for Christians.

 

[Rachie]

I have discussed this with my rector at church.

They said that in Christanity Jesus was about healing and miracles. Today our expectation should be that anything that helps us to heal is ok to do on the day of rest for conditions that did not exist when the Bible was written.

So for me to obtain food where I need to, yes.
A person suffers from depression and finds gardening helpful, so yes as well.
Your in a crisis mentally and need time out for therapy for autism, yes as well.

It would be interesting to find out if modern Judaism has captured these exceptions.

 

[Rachie]

Thank you for posting Yeshuasdaughter that was very interesting and I learnt a lot.

Today going to church I dropped a rubbish bag in a commual pathway and it was too much to my eye to leave it like that. I did my preparation for cleaning yesterday and so a lot of the cleaning stuff was highly used. I couldn't leave it like that for everyone else. I thought just to leave it for everyone is not showing things in the best light. It wasn't my housework but it seemed like an emergency unplanned one as well.

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[Kevin L.]

As a Jew and an RN, it is permissible to make exceptions for Jewish law if health and safety are issues.

Garbage can be a health hazard. Also, pork heart valves can be used to repair a defect in someone's heart. It isn't considered a violation of the Sabbath to call an ambulance if someone is having chest pain.

Judaism is a religion for the living, and my personal take on this subject is that God won't hold a grudge against someone for doing the right thing, as we should assume that God is reasonable.

If God is unreasonable, then we're all screwed anyway and all of the religious belief in the world doesn't make a difference.

There is a difference between sincere religious practice and an obsessive fear of God's wrath for being less than perfect.

Sincere religious belief should not be a side-effect of obsessive compulsive disorder and/or toxic perfectionism.

 

[Rachie]

As a Jew and an RN, it is permissible to make exceptions for Jewish law if health and safety are issues.

Garbage can be a health hazard. Also, pork heart valves can be used to repair a defect in someone's heart. It isn't considered a violation of the Sabbath to call an ambulance if someone is having chest pain.

Judaism is a religion for the living, and my personal take on this subject is that God won't hold a grudge against someone for doing the right thing, as we should assume that God is reasonable.

If God is unreasonable, then we're all screwed anyway and all of the religious belief in the world doesn't make a difference.

There is a difference between sincere religious practice and an obsessive fear of God's wrath for being less than perfect.

Sincere religious belief should not be a side-effect of obsessive compulsive disorder and/or toxic perfectionism.

This reply is perfection again to me so thank you for posting. There are Christians today who are still holding onto everything and have no idea and the health and safety update. I have even been in a mess about it recently and didn't to. I was wondering though what is the actual law book name the rule came from like Bible Genesis Chapter verse. Or if you know the book or journal/source that is fine to.

I was coming up with this thinking that me using shops was encouraging to not rest or attend church and I had no judgement for them. After talking to me dad today having taken in already about the health aspect expanded further and realised that some people have to work on the Sabbath and to feed their family or just them and if they didn't lose the job and health would deline in many potential ways. Afer thinking that I will never have thought again about encouraging another one whoever they are. Too much pain.