tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post1955237090201468570..comments2023-08-15T09:20:12.403-07:00Comments on Pesach Sheini: Embracing Shabbos- The real issue in discussing the Shabbos AppPesach Sommerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429802587338023317noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-23555860408428336282014-10-06T14:24:34.763-07:002014-10-06T14:24:34.763-07:00Precisely! While growing up, we didn't use a S...Precisely! While growing up, we didn't use a Shabbos Elevator because it "wasn't shabbos'dik", while acknowledging that older people, or those who lived on the 15th Floor on the West Side, were fully entitled to make use of it, Ditto for the "grama-phone" for doctors. (Okay, so we didn't listen to the refrigerator to make sure it was on before opening it, despite there being a good chance the motor would soon come on if we rummaged around in there, since the motor starting was only a grama. The iceman was out of business by that time, and spoiled food is decidedly un-Shabbosdik...)<br />I also heard in the name of a great man (possibly Rav Gustman) that part of the reason we do things like make tea in a "kli sheni", or put the water in first before the tea, etc., is simply to do things differently on Shabbos in recognition of Shabbos being different. (Similar to what you're mentioning about an underlying reason of muktza.) "Ve'Chibadeto maiAsos Derachecha..."<br />I'm also not sure that one can have "menucha" if their phone keeps buzzing. Can they ever have that feeling of peace one feels when Shabbos descends over Yerushalayim, or other enclaves in Eretz Yisroel? I recall one Ba'al Teshuva describing his first Shabbat as a "mountaintop experience" - for these teenagers, it'll be a "corner in mid-Manhattan experience" instead... Appy, appy, appy! <br />Rest your thumbs for 1 day, guys!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com