"I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life! No Orthodox Jew would ever observe the Sabbath on Sunday"
It is in Bolivia, Yisroel. The president of the synagogue here explained this policy to visitors to the synagogue during holocaust memorial week one time. I always wondered about the Jewish businesses here that keep open on the Sabbath. They probably don't consider themselves Orthodox, and they say they can't afford a rabbi.
ThomasDGW
I must correct myself... The 20 day's was a number I made up. Thing is, if you starving to death, you are allowed to eat pig. The rule is made by The Almighty and not by rabbi's
Further.
When I lived in Europe, queit some Christians offended me, because they found that I had to eat what they offered me. Or there where others even Messianic people, who found their own cheese Kosher enough, and told me that it was kosher (not that I ate it). I mean with that kind of agression I can't live. We keep rules, what God commanded to us.
If you as a non Jew don't want to offend the person where you want to eat, is a nice thing. I do that with certain customs, at home I might be more strickt. But Kosher food is a Torah commandment.
Anyway, your advice was to Shammuel, so for his context it seams good.
I just mean the offendingpart comes with more dimentions. A muslim will also not eat pig at all, just for being polite to the host etc.
Did Jesus not made his own rabbinical guidelines, so I guess a lot of Christians keep commentary and apostel-guidelines etc.?
Only in rear cases, where if you're business goes bankrupt if you don't open on shabbat, it might be allowed because otherwise your family might starve to death. But those rules where made when there was no insurance etc. etc. Nowadays people should find other ways to avoid being to poor.