What am I looking at?
According to the video, the work of stringing and repairing the wire is contracted out to a company that owns the bucket trucks and other equipment that is used. Given the cost of such equipment and the trained workers required to operate it, a cost of $100,000 annually may not be out of line. I don’t know how much the rabbis are actually profiting from this.
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A question (not trying to be snarky, I’d really like to know):
Since the original city wall or fence could be replaced by a symbolic wall (wire), could the wire be replaced by a virtual wall? What if someone using a VR headset or a cell phone app could see an image of a wall, delineating the area within which activities could be carried out? Once this was set up, maintaining the software shouldn’t be expensive.
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Which is fine. I wasn’t talking about the entire amount, but rather the “sucker tax” portion which, whatever its amount, is 100% profit for no real value added (because a random worker in the bucket can see that the wire is intact just as well as a rabbi).
Fundamentalist evangelical atheists are, from my experience, even more annoying than fundy Christian evangelists, just from the smug factor. All of the same attitude, just with the quotations changed out.
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A friend of mine who works for public transportation accidentally cut the Eruv string around a very wealthy neighborhood just before the sabbath and was almost fired…and I have to stop the story now since my comment mentions money and something associated with Jews, It will be deleted (again) for being “anti-semitic”.
If your comment is going to be deleted, it will be for rules lawyering.
I’d imagine that if your friend cut a wire belonging to ANY wealthy neighbourhood and affected the residents, he’d be lambasted. Whether or not the wire held spiritual or physical power. Respect for the belongings of others goes with any service job, after all.
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That’s a little disappointing.
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This game is called Ingress. (The company later made Pokemon Go.) As a player you try to connect real life landmarks in order to gain control of that area. It’s two teams across the planet.
I played for a year and really enjoyed it. I found lots of cool things (statues, fountains) I probably would have overlooked.
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But… but… I thought only Jews did that 
/s
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See now that was both on-topic AND funny. 
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THIS!!! Yes – believe what you want. Just don’t act like everyone else is an idiot and you’re the one with the real knowledge.
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Now that is a rabbinical eruv inspection that would be worth $100k. In fact, Rabbi Wallenda’s synagogue could sell tickets to New Yorkers for the 2-day spectacle and turn a profit.
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Adding an “/s” doesnt defang the comment.
It’s like the old joke: an atheist, a gluten free guy, and a CrossFit guy all walk into a bar.
I know this because they all told me so.
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The discussion in this topic has been about, among other things, the fact that interpretation and “rules lawyering” is a core part of Judaism as a legalistic religion, interpreted. The response was on-topic because it directly referenced that fact, while also trying to make light about the unfortunate moderator actions required in this topic.
IMHO there can be levity in a topic about religion that isn’t automatically intended to be inflammatory.
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As well as an acceptable amount of antisemitism? /s
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Um, No.
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Really?
I’ll PM you about this matter. I dont want to derail this thread any further than I already may have done.
Just noting the irony that a comment complaining about Jewish people and their pesky rules lawyering got deleted for… rules lawyering.
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