Sabbath mode
The Sabbath mode (also: Sabbath program) is a setting of electrically operated devices and facilities that Orthodox Jews should enable their use during the Sabbath rest and Jewish festivals . The setting changes the normal control of the devices in such a way that the rules of the Halacha are observed and also not unintentionally violated.
background
Orthodox Jews do not perform activities on the Sabbath that are defined as work according to the Halacha . In addition to preparing and cooking food, this includes in particular the prohibition on lighting a fire ( Mitzvah , number 322 of the 365 prohibitions: “That nobody lights a fire in his home on Shabbat.” ( Ex 35.3 EU )). From an orthodox point of view, this also excludes the switching on and off of electrical lights and electrical devices. In Judaism, the interpretation of the Halacha is the subject of ongoing debate with different doctrines. For example, the prohibition on operating a switch can also be derived from the prohibition on building activity (completion or destruction of a circuit ).
As a result, a switch must always be flipped by an Orthodox Jew before the beginning of the Sabbath and may only be reset after the Sabbath. An electric light in the apartment switched on before the beginning of the Sabbath z. B. then remains on until the end of the rest day. The activities affected by this can in principle be taken over by a non-Jewish servant (Schabbes- Goi ) during the Sabbath , but who is not available everywhere.
Working method
Since neither the preparation of meals nor the operation of counters are allowed during the Sabbath, it has become common practice to keep pre-cooked food warm in the stove for a long time, which is switched on before the holiday. While older or simple stoves enable such "continuous operation", many modern, electronically controlled devices have a time-controlled automatic switch-off for fire protection and energy-saving reasons . This restriction can be lifted by a Sabbath mode so that the oven can maintain a selected temperature for several days. It is also possible to switch off signal tones, time or temperature displays during the Sabbath program. To keep food warm on the stove, a special stove cover called a sheet metal was invented .
Inside refrigerators of conventional design, a light usually comes on when the door is opened. In order to comply with the ban on lighting fires on the Sabbath, such refrigerators can be manipulated by taping the door contact or unscrewing the lamp . This is not so easy to do with electronically controlled refrigerators without mechanical door contacts and with door-controlled influencing of the cooling process. A Sabbath mode helps here, which prevents all activities that are triggered by opening the door via the device's control software . The refrigerator then remains dark, no warning tones and messages, and the operation of the cooling technology is decoupled from the status of the door.
Sabbath elevators are often used in Israel . In Sabbath mode, they automatically drive to every floor, where the doors open and close automatically so that no switch has to be operated when they are used.
The Sabbath mode is either switched off manually after the end of the holiday or automatically deactivated by a timer .
Web links
- Sabbath Elevator Video
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard S. Jacobson: The Shabath and Labor: Awodah and Malakhah haGalil , accessed on June 28, 2017
- ^ Electricity on Shabbat | My Jewish Learning . In: My Jewish Learning . ( myjewishlearning.com [accessed March 31, 2018]).
- ↑ Miele & Cie. KG (Ed.): Instructions for use and installation of the steam cooker with oven function . S. 114 .
- ^ Double Wall Ovens - Sabbath Mode. In: Explanation of Sabbath Mode. GE Appliances, accessed January 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Peter Glaser: Kosher Machines. In: futurezone.at/. October 19, 2013, accessed January 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Amelia Thomas, Michael Kohn, Miriam Raphael, Dan Savery Raz: Israel & Palestine . Ed .: Lonely Planet Publications, Melbourne. Mairdumont, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-8297-2207-0 , pp. 51 .
- ↑ Liebherr: Instructions for use of a refrigerator with Sabbath mode .