"Keep it holy" should be a cliche. Like "keep it clean", only with more resonance!

Sep 19, 2008 22:33

So I go to the bookstore to pick up the texts for a class I'm taking on the interpretation of Genesis. Among our interpreters is Ramban. The set edition was a big, serviceable hardcover, but I suspected there would be lots of editions of a guy like Ramban with various agendas. I figured I'd look into a few other versions, just to see what was ( Read more... )

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marnanel September 20 2008, 03:02:03 UTC
That's interesting. The only vaguely similar case I know of is a British government website, I think that of the Land Registry, which shuts down after 5pm London time and puts up a sad little message instead telling you to come back at nine. I think this is much more justifiable.

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emilymorgan September 20 2008, 03:44:43 UTC
And for a second I thought you meant order your cat not to use the computer on the Sabbath. :)

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canonfire September 20 2008, 09:37:03 UTC
BTW, Beloved Dust is available. I've already gotten one review from a rather important Polish theologian who says it's the r0x0rzzz. Though he did not say it in those words...

I'm trying to remember the other books I recommended...

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sciencewizard September 22 2008, 00:38:34 UTC
"Place not a stumbling block before the blind." The web programmers assume, and correctly, I think, that the vast majority of their visitors are Jewish. For someone to be interested enough in an ArtScroll to purchase it, they are most likely Jewish. To enable them to do so on Shabbat would be to enable them to sin, whereas to freeze the website on Shabbat cuts them from two sins (using circuits/fire and financial transaction) down to one.

Hey, I'm sorry that you were inconvencienced, but I'm 100% on board with this one. ;-)

How's by you?

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marketsquare September 22 2008, 02:17:21 UTC
Oh, the practice is perfectly sensible, even charming. It was hardly any inconvenience.

It's been a rough week. Not mostly LJ material. I'll try and catch you on the phone before the holidays.

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