# If you're going to post questions about Judaism, don't do it on Saturday! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115 "2004-10-31T03:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/21 "2004-10-31T11:22:00Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > Internet Rule #563,432,346: Only sabbath-oberserving Jews can answer questions about Judaism. _Over 563 million rules?!?_ Fuck this is going to be a looooong thread if the OP steps up to my challenge. Mods, where can we send donated hamsters? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/22 "2004-10-31T13:29:58Z")
Chiming in as another non-observant Jew who watches the boards on Saturday. If I can answer a question, I will. Robin ;j ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/23 "2004-10-31T13:35:27Z")
Well, perhaps Saturday morning is a naturally appropriate time for thinking thoughts about Judaism and God? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/24 "2004-10-31T13:52:17Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Chiming in as another non-observant Jew who watches the boards on Saturday. If I can answer a question, I will. > > Robin ;j Bad, Robin! Bad bad girl! Even if you are, in fact, spending your sabbaths riding around in cars, using computers, handling money, and turning your stove on and off, you should not be answering questions about Judaism on a Saturday. You want that your Tante Ruth should know what you do on Shabbat? Oy vey ist mir! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/25 "2004-10-31T13:59:55Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > You want I should be nice? This _is_ nice. > > :dubious: You’ve seen me not nice. > > btw, you left your bra in my car… 😛 > Still, in the spirit of good relations, I’m sorry, **GaWd**. I pray you don’t Judge me. Perhaps this can be the Genesis of a new friendship. And the Exodus of animosity. I hope i didn’t cause any Lamentations on your part. Good Job, **Mo**. Uhmm, **NoClueBoy** , actually, that was _my_ bra, and a certain Armenian gentleman would very much like to know how it got there. [sigh!]How quickly they forget!😉 CJ ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/26 "2004-10-31T14:04:40Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > Uhmm, **NoClueBoy** , actually, that was _my_ bra, and a certain Armenian gentleman would very much like to know how it got there. > > [sigh!]How quickly they forget!😉 > > CJ **No Clue Boy** , you got you some ‘splainin’ to do about how my little sister’s bra ended up in your back seat!!! :mad: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/27 "2004-10-31T14:08:17Z")
The Straight Dope has an international following, just remember that when someone seems to be posting on a Saturday it may actually be a Sunday or a Friday where they are. Besides, if I’m asking about Judaism then I probably know very little about it, including what days are verbotten for questions. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/28 "2004-10-31T14:16:23Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > **No Clue Boy** , you got you some ‘splainin’ to do about how my little sister’s bra ended up in your back seat!!! :mad: > > 😃 I was just trying it on! 😮 Honest! She had simply brought it to me. You won’t catch me mesing around with an Engineers interest, no siree You want I should explain to the Older Men? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/29 "2004-10-31T14:54:53Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > Bad, Robin! Bad bad girl! > > Even if you are, in fact, spending your sabbaths riding around in cars, using computers, handling money, and turning your stove on and off, you should not be answering questions about Judaism on a Saturday. You want that your Tante Ruth should know what you do on Shabbat? Oy vey ist mir! I will have you know that my Tante Ruth and I are usually IMing on Shabbos! So there! 😛 Robin ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/30 "2004-10-31T15:04:18Z")
…or even a practising Jew, to be able to answer questions about Judaism. Although IANATS I am a non-practising Jew who has absorbed a reasonable amount of information about Jewish history, culture and religion, through reading, contact with religious friends and extended family members, and eight years living in Israel (although educated in the secular side of the schooling system there). I’m not the first to make that point. I did want to add that it is annoying when some non-Jews assume that just because you are Jewish you do/don’t do certain things. This happens all the time, most recently when someone was telling my mother about her holiday, and describing the typical dish of the region she visited, which was pork-based. The person interrupted herself, saying, “Oh, but of course, you **can’t** eat pork!” This, to my Mum, is like a red rag to a bull. “I can eat whatever I like!” was her reply. She said it in a light-hearted tone so as not to offend her neighbour, who she knows meant well, but as my mother told me later, it pisses her off. ---
**Author:** ![thursday\_next](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thursday\_next](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thursday_next)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/31 "2004-10-31T15:17:25Z")
I’m nearbrew, plus I have shiskappeal, so I can check out a question regarding all kinds of groovy stuff relating to Judiasm if its posted during the Sabbath. That was probably the best thing about my stepbrother exploring his religion, I learned about it too! ;j And Yiddish, its about the niftiest language. One can mutter about it all day long and very few people in this area know what I’m saying … of course that tends to happen when I speak English too. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/32 "2004-10-31T15:34:18Z")
In all seriousness, what **Martha** said, plus I’m going to add a bit more. Nothing irks me more than someone (usually an evangelical Christian) telling me that I **must** practice all tenets of my religion. Um, no. What I eat or do or believe is between me and my conscience. My religious education did not instill a love of rules; it instilled a sense of justice and fairness and doing the right thing for its own sake. I like to think my teachers and rabbis did a good job of it, too. (FTR, I was raised Reform.) Robin ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/33 "2004-10-31T16:07:11Z")
:: just standing around whistling :: Zev Steinhardt 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/34 "2004-10-31T16:19:15Z")
> [@](#): > > It is an open society so there is no reason why non-Jews cannot answer such questions. We’ve even had a couple of occasions when the fact that the answer was presented by a Gentile actually added the weight of perceived veracity to the statement, because the answer was not then seen as some sort of propaganda piece. (This did not apply to threads in which John John participated, of course.) (It helps, of course, if the Gentile gets the answer right.) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/35 "2004-10-31T17:07:20Z")
> [@Martha](#): > > This happens all the time, most recently when someone was telling my mother about her holiday, and describing the typical dish of the region she visited, which was pork-based. The person interrupted herself, saying, “Oh, but of course, you **can’t** eat pork!” This, to my Mum, is like a red rag to a bull. “I can eat whatever I like!” was her reply. She said it in a light-hearted tone so as not to offend her neighbour, who she knows meant well, but as my mother told me later, it pisses her off. Hmm… Does it mean you eat pork? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/36 "2004-10-31T18:16:31Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > We’ve even had a couple of occasions when the fact that the answer was presented by a Gentile actually added the weight of perceived veracity to the statement, because the answer was not then seen as some sort of propaganda piece. (This did not apply to threads in which John John participated, of course.) > > (It helps, of course, if the Gentile gets the answer right.) LOL! I never did understand the epistemological connection between the Khazars and Mrs. Clinton’s glutei maximi, though! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/37 "2004-10-31T20:13:47Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Hmm… Does it mean you eat pork? > 😃 If jamon serrano qualifies as ‘pork’ - guilty as charged. 😃 Officially I’m a vegetarian, but my lapses are famously non-kosher. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/38 "2004-10-31T21:36:06Z")
Couldn’t Orthodox Jews have a Gentile print the threads out for them on Saturday or something? Not a joke; I just don’t know shit about the more traditional forms of Judaism (all the Jews I’ve known have been Reform, except at least one who was Conservative). ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/39 "2004-10-31T21:52:43Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > 8 or 9 hours, if **Blalron** ’s location is accurate. Not much luck there. 🙂 10, now that y’all are back on Standard Time - but who’s counting? 😃 > [@tomndebb](#): > > (It helps, of course, if the Gentile gets the answer right.) Following a recent experience, it helps if the _Jew_ gets it right, too! :smack: And the **interesting** Jews are here every day of the week! ;j (pork ‘n’ Mozzarella sandwich in hand… Jus’ kidding; I don’t really like pork all that much. Turkey tastes better and it’s better for you, too!) Dani ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115/40 "2004-10-31T21:57:16Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > Uhmm, **NoClueBoy** , actually, that was _my_ bra, and a certain Armenian gentleman would very much like to know how it got there. > > [sigh!]How quickly they forget!😉 > > CJ Any chance you’re missing a pair panties as well? And yes, as you may have surmised, I found those in _my_ car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-going-to-post-questions-about-judaism-dont-do-it-on-saturday/272115.md?page=3)