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Examples
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Rehersing would be prohibited because he is preparing for something that happens after shabbes, on shabbes, which is tehnically assur prohibited.
NYT: Shabbat Continues Through Saturday Night | Jewschool 2006
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Browsing my News Feed, I see one friend in Minneapolis posted photos of newly installed solar panels on her roof, someone in Guelph has bad writer's block, and a friend in Boston sent out a "gut shabbes, y'all."
Open Letter to Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail da_lj 2009
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Anne describes her family as “shomer shabbes lay Conservative Jews.”
Anne Lapidus Lerner. 2009
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No tv, leave the phone off/at home, and come if you want to really join us for shabbes.
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"Well, it's just that that's a Jewish ritual, lighting the shabbes candles."
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The chip maker's offices in Har Hotzim, north of Jerusalem, were surrounded by about 2,000 protestors shouting "Shabbes, shabbes!".
The Register 2009
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Not every pol running for office who wants Jewish votes or money grew up in a Jewish neighborhood like former New York governor Mario Cuomo, who used to like to boast to Jewish audiences that he served as the shabbes goy for a synagogue in the South Jamaica section of Queens, where he was raised.
Latest Articles 2008
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If you’re allowed to employ a shabbes goy then why not a web server?
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If they’d rather go to a movie, so be it - make plans for motzei shabbes.
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As a reform and non-shomer jew in a relationship with a shomer-shabbes, kosher, 3xdaily-davening jew, I’ll say that respect is definitely the beginning of dealing with any issues raised by differing practices.
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