Upvoted for being the only non-Jew I’ve ever met to know that.
Really? Nearly everyone I grew up with was told that and I assume I wasn’t the only one to remember. I infer that either you don’t know many Christians, the subject hasn’t come up while you were talking to said Christians or Christian culture in your area is far more ignorant of their religious theory and tradition than they are here.
I’ve heard that some rules are specifically supposed to only apply to Jews,¹ and I think most Christians have heard that at some point in their lives, but I don’t think most of them remember having heard that, and very few to know that not wearing clothing of two different kinds of fibre at the same time is one such rules.
I remember Feynman’s WTF reaction in Surely You’re Joking to learning that Jews are not allowed to operate electric switches on Saturdays but they are allowed to pay someone else to do that.
There are different Jewish doctrinal positions on whether shabbos goyim—that is, non-Jews hired to perform tasks on Saturdays that Jews are not permitted to perform—are permissible.
Really? Nearly everyone I grew up with was told that and I assume I wasn’t the only one to remember. I infer that either you don’t know many Christians, the subject hasn’t come up while you were talking to said Christians or Christian culture in your area is far more ignorant of their religious theory and tradition than they are here.
I’ve heard that some rules are specifically supposed to only apply to Jews,¹ and I think most Christians have heard that at some point in their lives, but I don’t think most of them remember having heard that, and very few to know that not wearing clothing of two different kinds of fibre at the same time is one such rules.
I remember Feynman’s WTF reaction in Surely You’re Joking to learning that Jews are not allowed to operate electric switches on Saturdays but they are allowed to pay someone else to do that.
There are different Jewish doctrinal positions on whether shabbos goyim—that is, non-Jews hired to perform tasks on Saturdays that Jews are not permitted to perform—are permissible.
And paying them on Saturday is always bad.
Pretty much a combination of all three. I live in a tiny bubble; occasionally I forget that and make stupid comments.