So here is a
LINK to a story about how a well respected rabbi has now declared that even so called "sabbath elevators" that stop on every floor so that you don't have to push a button (and thus break Jewish law) use too much electricity and therefore are against Sabbath law.
So, if you live on an upper floor, you have to lug the kids, the stroller, and everything up several flights of stairs.
So walking up several flights of stairs
doesn't break the day of rest, but riding an elevator does!?
I am not belittling the Orthodox Jews, but it is an example, just like in Jesus' time, of Jewish leaders who are totally missing the spirit of the law while going nuts over the letter of the law. God intended the day of rest to make sure that we stopped, that we gave time to God, that we set aside part of our weekly schedule for Him. This whole debate so loses the point of a Holy God. How sad.
