"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> "Ellen K." > wrote in message
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>> "Nicky" > wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:57:41 -0700, "Ellen K."
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>>>>The only restrictions
>>>>are that the milk is not allowed to become hotter than 113 F
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>>> Why that precise figure, Ellen, do you know?
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>>> Nicky (intrigued...)
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>> I'm not sure exactly about the temperature of the liquid itself, however
>> it might be related to the more general rule that in order to put a
>> cooked solid food on a hot surface in order to warm (but not further
>> cook) it on the sabbath, the hot surface has to be a temperature where a
>> normal person can comfortably rest their hand. So I would guess maybe it
>> has been determined that somewhere around 45 C is the highest temperature
>> where a normal person can comfortably rest their hand.
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> I remember our Anglican minister from 20 odd years ago. It was ok for
> essential services staff to wok on the Sabbath but no one else. He was
> very strict on not buying anything from a store on a Sunday because the
> store shouldn't even be open. I am afraid I bought Sunday papers, milk and
> bread and fuel if necessary and gasp! I cooked on Sundays ... I don't
> heed man made rules personally (not of that nature anyway). To me my
> "faith" is the most important thing, not the "rules", the threats of a
> hell or a need to jump through xyz hoops to get into "heaven". I believe
> it was the late Chuck who said I was a fundamentalist, I have no idea what
> that means

Everybody is entitled to follow their own religion, or no religion at all.
I vaguely remember that Protestantism's big innovation was the "faith alone"
idea, sounds like that's where you are comfortable. Normative Judaism is
about how one lives in *this* world, not about getting into "heaven", but
the "how one lives in this world" includes many concrete aspects of everyday
life in addition to the very important more abstract ones like the way one
treats other people.