There is some rationality...
For instance, Israeli firefighters work on the Sabbath. Don’t know if they are “at work” on the Sabbath, but they do fight actual fires on the Sabbath.
The IDF can not take part in Sabbath during hot wars.
Preserving life takes precedence.
“There is some rationality...
For instance, Israeli firefighters work on the Sabbath. Don’t know if they are “at work” on the Sabbath, but they do fight actual fires on the Sabbath.
The IDF can not take part in Sabbath during hot wars.”
WRT the subject article...if these folks were so worried about violating the Sabbath, they shouldn’t have gotten on the plane in the first place. Acting as they did while on the plane, forcing the airline to divert the plane (which costs money, even if not theirs), and inconveniencing the other passengers is making everyone else who believes in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob look like a bunch of crazies. Once they got on the plane, they should have simply gone on with the trip. They weren’t flying it, they weren’t feeding fuel into the engines (which is a process that started before the Sabbath, even if they arrived after it started) and they wouldn’t be opening the doors of the aircraft (which might involve some use of electricity - otherwise simply opening a door is definitely not prohibited). This is how we’re a “light unto the nations?” Nope, not by my way of thinking.
These folks did what they could to arrive in Israel before the Sabbath - everything else was in the hands of the airline’s employees or God Himself. Don’t they think that God would understand what happened? From my POV, this was a test of those people...and they failed, miserably.