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muman613:
--- Quote from: LocustKillingZealot on March 21, 2012, 06:36:11 PM ---Aww. My sincere thanks, and blessing regardless. As I understand it, I do deserve to die, and am cut off from my people for disobeying this commandement (I'm pretty sure the sinning in ignorace law doesn't count here, and I did hear of it in the first place, but didn't believe the person). How can this be repented of, if possible?
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We are in a generation which has much transgression. I would not become disheartened because of your Shabbat transgression. I only did Teshuva eight years ago after almost 20 years of being 'Off the derech'. I believe Hashem will forgive our transgressions because the Torah states in the Tochacha/Rebukes that even when we have fallen badly, that if we get up and admit our faults and make changes to perform his Torah with love, that he will return to us.
This forgiveness is especially forthcoming during the High Holidays when we remember how Moshe davened for Hashem to spare the Jewish people who sat by as the Golden Calf was worshipped. Hashem wanted to destroy the entire nation. We learn the 13 attributes of Mercy during the High Holiday services...
I recommend trying to keep Shabbat as best as you can according to the Halacha. It is not easy at first but as time goes on you will feel more comfortable keeping these commandments...
muman613:
--- Quote from: LocustKillingZealot on March 21, 2012, 06:37:33 PM ---Also, does 3c mean asking goyim to turn off and on your lights for you is inpermissable?
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I am not sure if that refers to the 'Shabbat Goy'....Regardless it is wrong to ask a non-Jew to perform forbidden work. But it is permissible for the non-Jew to volunteer to do things around the house which are forbidden {so long as we dont ask}. I have had situations where a non-Jew in the house on Shabbat has come in handy {especially when the plumbing went meshugah on one Shabbat}...
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1140867/jewish/The-Myth-of-the-Shabbos-Goy.htm
--- Quote ---The basic rule of thumb as far as having a gentile do work for a Jew on Shabbat is that if a Jew may not do it, a non-Jew cannot do it for him. This is true whether or not the Jew specifically asks the non-Jew to do the work or if the non-Jew does it on his own, whether the non-Jew is paid for his efforts or not. There are, however, various exceptions to this rule. Here are some of the variables that may impact the ruling on this matter (the article below will discuss the details):
* If the non-Jew is being paid by the job, rather than by the hour or day.
* If the Jew is not directly benefiting from the work.
* If the non-Jew is (also) directly benefiting from the work.
* If the work is of only forbidden by Rabbinic law.
* If it is still in the very first minutes of Shabbat.
* If it's a situation of great need, great financial loss, illness or mitzvah.
Torah or Rabbinic Origin
Regarding having a non-Jew7 work for one on Shabbat, the Mechilta8 says that the source of the prohibition against this can be found in the verse regarding Passover:9 "No work shall be done for you." This means that the work may not even be done by someone else for the sake of a Jew. Most of the commentaries,10 however, understood this verse as an asmachta—that is, a textual support for a Rabbinic decree, not as an actual Biblical injunction.11
The Rabbis felt that if it would be permitted to have non-Jews perform work for one on Shabbat, people would view Shabbat as unimportant, and they would eventually desecrate the Shabbat themselves.12 Therefore, they decreed that when a non-Jew performs work for a Jew on Shabbat, he becomes his agent for that action and it's considered as if the Jew performed the work himself.13
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Apparently this article does support your concern that allowing non-Jews to perform forbidden labor for a Jew on Shabbat may lead to a Jew desecrating Shabbat...
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