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A ham sandwich on Yom Kippur

Posted by DAVID ADESNIK in Religion, Society.
Nov 11th, 2009 | Comments

“Having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn’t make you less Jewish,” Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently.

I feel like this may be a license for mis-behavior. (If you’re interested in the context of Rabbi Schochet’s remark, click here.)

Cross-posted at Conventional Folly

  • Silhouette
    Well if your a jew that can get behind bombing the Palestinians on the Sabbath [remember last late December, during their holy days], then eating a ham sandwich isn't really going to make a difference where you're headed..

    In fact, you might as well put a slab of cheese on that ham and serve it with a side of clams and blood sausage for all it matters at that point.
  • adesnik
    I know the previous post was meant to be sarcastic, but there actually is an exception to Sabbath observance for participation in a just war. To be clear, the real issue from a Jewish perspective is whether the war is just (and conducted justly). Not whether the war is on the Sabbath.
  • kathykattenburg
    David,

    How about a tunafish sandwich? :-)
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