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Rabbi stops Electric Corp. from fixing power cut on Jewish holiday
Raanan Ben Tsur
Published: 22.10.19, 23:06
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1. Anyone in Elad on a ventilator? Not that it would matter to
steve ,   Teaneck   (10.23.19)
the Rabbi. Any wonder why no one wants to live near these primitives?
2. Travelled around Europe
Rabbi   (10.23.19)
This year travelled around Europe on Simhat torah because the Past 6 lotto powerball 40 million win went to ham and pig eaters. So I am trying my luck differently
3. Rabbi, please move or we'll move you.
David ,   Hartford USA   (10.23.19)
Somebody needs to tell the rabbi that he's not the emperor of the town. The electric company workers should have gone in and fixed the line.
4. Poor things, but isn't it what the whole ,bloody religious
(10.23.19)
sham has in store for all of us: keeping everybody hostage?
They're already doing it in many areas of life in Israel!
5. above
moishe   (10.23.19)
hypocrite. it's an emergency. people may die. so what. there must be a place in hell for him.
6. Why should seculars care about this?
Talula ,   Israel   (10.23.19)
Let them get on with it. Let them take up their grievances with the Rabbi who ruined their holiday.
7. There are rabbis and rabbis!
Dr. Josef Rothschild ,   Brussels   (10.23.19)
This one overlooked an important halachical point: pikuach nefesh!
He impaired the vital security point: electricity is vital for saving human lives.
His narrowmindedness is tremendous fodder for religion-bashers!
8. the entire populatioon of Israel is hostage
doda ,   G"m   (10.23.19)
You chose! to live in a community like that - this is what logically follows.
9. Nice anti religious article
David ,   New york   (10.23.19)
I’m sure it can help gin up some anti religious hatred.
Thanks a lot Ynet
(And thanks to the 2-3 activists who instigated this for their own purposes)

Back in the real world: Jewish law is a serious thing (not less so than secular law) A religious town ought to follow religious laws. Not sure why you have a Jewish state if Judaism is being denegrated
10. Strange contradiction
georgeg ,   Toronto   (10.24.19)
Strange that the internet has an article dated 01 June 2014 that a Rabbi Grossman did allow repair crews to enter the city of Elad on Shabbos (Shabbos Parshas Nasso 5774).
11. 4 questions that prove that this article is inaccurate
A Chareidi Jew ,   Israel   (10.24.19)
1) How on earth would the IEC be able to contact the rav? He didn't have his cell phone on him and he's not running out there to find the one power line that snapped.
2) How would the IEC know who to call anyway?
3) The IEC doesn't care about Shabbat. Period.
4) There are respirators and water that runs on electricity, that's the reason heter we have for using electricity at all on Shabbat, so there's no way he's going to be a "tzaddik" on someone else's life!

Happens to be - the rabbi also denies it.

Secular anti-religious, anti-Semitic article.
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