Mispocha: How many Sins were committed here?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here’s the situation. It’s Saturday during Passover and you drive to Wendy’s for lunch and get a bacon cheeseburger. How many sins did you commit?

  1. You drove during the Sabbath.
  2. You carried money and car keys on the Sabbath.
  3. You paid for something with money* on the Sabbath.
    3.a. If you used a debit/credit card you had to type in your PIN or sign your name.
  4. The kitchen is certainly not Kosher.
  5. Hamburger + cheese.
  6. Bacon.
  7. The bun.

So, what have I missed?

*I figure if turning on a light switch is considered making a fire, paying for something with a credit/debit card is just as bad as using cash.

2

Breaking your mother’s heart.

3

Isn’t that pretty much 24/7? :smiley:

4

Better than pork, isn’t it?

5

Did you get a drink with that? It was probably sweetened with prohibited corn syrup.

6

What’s wrong with the bun?

If you’re Reform, probably the only sin was to patronize Wendy’s, thus encouraging them to keep putting that obnoxiously smug redhead on the air.

Depending on when you went to the restaurant, you might have missed shul. That’s the only other one I can see there, but I am not an observant Jew.

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Leavened bread.

8

Ah, Passover. Missed that. Did you eat reclining?

9

I’m not Jewish. I can eat what I want. :smiley:

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Technically, I doubt that the original Jewish calendar included leap days (nor clearly delineated timezones), so I think your only hope is that God isn’t a technocrat to begin with. Otherwise, you’re pretty much screwed no matter what you do.*

It’s like the police. There’s enough laws that they could almost certainly, legally and justifiably, pick you up for something at any given moment. What lands you in jail isn’t whether you’ve done something, it’s whether you did it in such a spectacular (or spectacularly stupid) way that you’re just asking to get a kick to the ass for it.

Link should be safe, but the rest of the site is NSFW http**://oglaf**.com/assorted-fruits/

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In the interest of keeping this away from the “let’s knock all religious practices” crowd, (and, I think, in the spirit in which it was posted), I am moving this to MPSIMS.

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Zero. I’m not Jewish.

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If you’re not careful interacting with the cashier or standing in line, you may have come into contact with a woman you’re not related to.

14

Funny, you don’t look Jewish.

15

that’s because I’m Druish.

16

Not a problem for Mexican Jews.

17

Ummmm…

Wikipedia says bacon is a type of pork, “Ham, smoked pork, gammon, bacon and sausage are examples of preserved pork.”

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We don’t need no stinkin’ payos…

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Mr. Mostel, you’re such a kidder.

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You’ll need to define what you mean by “sin” here. The Jewish concept of “sin” is different than the Christian concept of sin. And no, I’m not being pedantic. It is a material distinction.

Lets assume that by “sin” you mean something more akin to “transgression.”

Remember that there is no one central Jewish authority, and not all Jews believe that they are obligated to do the same group of things. An ultra-orthodox Jew might believe that turning on a light switch on the sabbath is a transgression. A reform secular Jew wouldn’t see it as such.

So, is your question “how many transgressions are here from an ultra-orthodox perspective” or “how many transgressions would this be according to your own tradition and practice?”

If it’s the former, I’ll leave that to more knowledgeable parties than I. Most of whom are probably sitting in their sukkahs right about now.

If it is the latter, I’d say “none,” because I’m not shomer shabbos, I don’t follow the Passover customs regarding leavened bread, etc. The only transgression would be a non-religious one, because I try to eat healthier meals than bacon cheeseburgers from Wendys.*

  • I get my cheeseburgers from Wendy’s without the bacon. :stuck_out_tongue: