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Outside of the obvious (belief in one god), keeping the Sabbath is arguably the most important tenet of Judaism.

 

I'm certainly not a Jew, but I'm fairly confident that's not the case.

 

I was raised Jewish and studied religion in college. What is more important than keeping the Sabbath?

 

Certain ultraorthodox Jews believe women are inferior to men. They are not permitted to work or drive. Women have to sit separately from men, frequently upstairs.

I attend a Reform synagogue which is led by a female rabbi. Am I disobeying God?

 

If ambivalence about some big commandments disqualified someone from a religion, we’d have a shitload fewer Jews and Christians in this country.

 

I don’t believe any of it. I am the secular Jew I described. You can believe you’re just as religious, within the guidelines of Judaism, by going to reformed temple, but you’re not.

 

Just because people consider themselves Jews and Christians doesn’t mean they’re actually Jews and Christians.

 

I assume you follow Orthodox tenets and don't post on here from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, right?

I work on the Sabbath. I do this to pay my bills. If God doesn't want me to do so, he can find me a job outside the newspaper industry.

Plus, my grandfather was Orthodox. He was a factory foreman. He observed the Sabbath, but he worked it when his bosses told him he needed to. He did this to pay his bills and put food in the table, in an era when there sure as hell wasn't no lawsuits for religious discrimination.

 

Who gets to decide?

 

I'll take a pass on any religion that requires me to keep scorecards on others.

 

The 10 Commandments, of which the Sabbath is just one.

 

Yours seems to be a derivative take. The central tenet of Judaism -- AS MY HICK-ASS EPISCOPALIAN SELF UNDERSTANDS IT -- is that there is one supreme deity who has entered into a covenant with a given people. Keeping the Sabbath is a reminder of this covenant, so it goes ... it is not an end in and of itself.