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A ham sandwich on Yom Kippur
“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
3 Responses to “A ham sandwich on Yom Kippur”
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..
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.
David,
How about a tunafish sandwich?