{"id":465,"date":"2007-01-16T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/01\/16\/stuck-on-shabbat\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T17:22:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T15:22:01","slug":"stuck-on-shabbat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/stuck-on-shabbat\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck on Shabbat"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I was coming back from the Hebron region on the tunnels road (photo here<\/a>).  It was late on a Friday afternoon and the beginning of Shabbat was nigh.  In one of the tunnels, there was a car accident.  As we drove past it, we saw the line of cars backed up to Jerusalem.  Most of the travelers were Jewish people who live in the West Bank and who are religiously observant.  Which means that the pain was quite evident on their faces as they sat in their cars, not knowing if they would make it home before Shabbat.  I wondered aloud what they would do if Shabbat began and they were not home, as they are not allowed to drive on this day.  My friend suggested that they might claim “pikuah nefesh,” and continue driving because of the risk to one’s life if he stopped in potentially hostile territory and had to spend the cold night outside.  <\/p>\n

Today the Jerusalem Post reprints a column<\/a> from a New York Jewish man who faced just this problem, but in New York.  He tells an interesting story, including how he was “saved” by evangelical Christians.<\/p>\n

A recent items of news in Israel was the impending boycott of Israel’s national airline, El Al, because they flew a delayed flight on Shabbat.  A few weeks ago, the head of the Israel Electric Company was fired because he ordered a heavy piece of equipment to be transported on Shabbat (when there would be less disturbance to traffic).  The desecration of the Shabbat is a very important matter to religious Jews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I was coming back from the Hebron region on the tunnels road (photo here).  It was late on a Friday afternoon and the beginning of Shabbat was nigh.  In one of the tunnels, there was a car accident.  As we drove past it, we saw the line of cars backed up\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}