Gamers keeping Shabbat

[mythago]

Nope. Archie Mcphee picked them up for a while, but they were (pardon the term) played straight by the original manufacturers.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

FWIW, I sent off a question to OU's "ask the rabbi" e-mail address, about the appropriateness of gaming on Shabbat. I will post the answer if I get one.

Please do. That'll be interesting to see.

 

[Cullain]

So do they have kosher sushi restaurants in Japan???

Not sure about Japan, but I know they have kosher sushi restaraunts in the states. In the town I used to live in(Brookline, MA) they had a kosher sushi place, kosher chinese food resteraunt, kosher dunkin' donuts, etc., etc. Pretty convenient, actually, since if you are very sincere about observing kosher it can be very hard to go out to eat.

'course, i'm just a lapsed catholic, so doesn't really bother me much.

Cullain

 

[Dragongirl]

I don't belong to any organized religion (former Catholic), and just want to say I am amazed at all the rules in the Orthodox Jewish faith. All I have to say is be true to yourself and all will be well.

 

[Bagel Golem]

Re: Re: Re: Fascinating

You can't own miniatures? Because of the law against graven and molten images or somethign else? Can miniatures made by other processes (stamping? fimo?) be owned?

Is it the way they ar emade, or the fact that they are 3D? No statuary in general is allowed?

The fact that they're 3D. No statuary in general is allowed, although representations of inanimate objects is considered an exception.

In answer to your second question, it does derive from the commandment against graven images. You can't have 3D representations made any other way because you can neither break a commandment (except in certain circumstances) nor be seen to break a commandment and risk someone thinking your stamped object was graven.

Frum (religious) people do not own statues or allow their kids to play with dolls, although toy cars and the like are OK.

One of the exceptions to not owning a graven image is self-defence. That's why a golem created to defend a community is acceptable.

Again, I'm not a rabbi. But the above is correct as far as I know.

**And I'd like a d20 kippah too. That would be so cool. **

Bagel Golem

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

All of my great-grand parents were Orthodox but somehow I was raised Reformed. My father's mother (she died when I was 4 and my parents divorced when I was 5) kept kosher though, I still remember as a child visiting seeing the kosher salt and even soap.

I really need to attend the synagogue more often here in BR. We have two: B'nai Israel and Beth Shalom, both Reformed. When I do go to services (which is not often at all) I go to B'nai Isreal because I've known the Rabbi since I went to Boys State in 1985.

 

[mythago]

All of my great-grand parents were Orthodox but somehow I was raised Reformed.

Reform, not Reformed. It's a very common phenomenon in America; part of immigrants "being American" was giving up what were seen as embarassing relics of the old country and adopting the new nation's ways. Reform is a little more compatible with mainstream American culture than Orthodox Judaism; it's easier to blend in.

 

[DM_Matt]

Reform, not Reformed.

Thx for pointing it out...that mistake always bugs me for some reason....

 

[Jeph]

Jeph, would your mother let you accept such a kippah as a gift, or would that be too weird for her?

That would quite definitely be wierd for her. She doesn't even know the ENworlders cyberly. However, it would also be quite wierd for me. I mean, I feel like I have many friends here on ENworld, but have never actually met any of them, IRL (except fot the ones that I introduced to ENworld myself). I feel slightly odd accepting gifts from people that I haven't actually met in person.

Right. Back to psued-philosophy and stuff.

Wait, nevermind . . . Have to comment on Word Freak first. Good-ish book. Can get slow at times, but interesting.

Okay, now for my religious views. Neither of my parrents grew up religious, they only started going to the Synogogue because they wanted their children to grow up Jewish. I've been the nice jewish boy for most of my life (aside from getting 2 sunday school teachers and a director to quit . . . but that's another story), but never actually totally believed the whole God thing. Neither did my parrents, I guess that's part of (or most of) where my thoughts are coming from. Anyway, after my bar mitzvah (which was 356 days ago exactly), we kinda phased out the Synogogue thing. We still keep Shabbat and all the holidays, but don't attend services that often. (Mostly because our Rabbi is an ignorant , but that's another story, too). We picked back up again when an orthodox rabbi that we really liked started to hold services in his house. Aaron Shone. Nice guy, verry smart, too. Anyway, I'm still not very religious--that is, I keep my religion, but don't really believe in it. The Bible Unearthed, and a few works by Karen Armstrong, reinforce by disbelief in the man upstairs. But anyway, that's just me.

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Whoa . . . that was quite a block of text. Sorry.

-Jeph

 

[DSC-EricPrice]

Yet another jewish game publisher here. Where has this thread been? Or have I just been that busy writing on shabbat? :O

I guess it goes to show you can ask 10,000 jews a question and get 10,000 answers.

I personally treat gaming the quivalent of playing scrabble and therefore totally acceptable. Obviously, I'm from the reform movement...

And by the way, sign my up for the d20 kippah