Title The Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfuges : an unorthodox essay on circumventing custom and Jewish character / Alan Dundes.

Publication Info.	Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002]
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-193) and index.
Contents	The Concept of Custom -- The Sabbath in the Old Testament -- The Sabbath in the New Testament -- The Sabbath in Rabbinical Tradition -- The Shabbat Elevator -- The Light in the Refrigerator -- The Eruv as Symbolic Space -- Other Sabbath Customs -- The Shabbes Goy -- Circumvention and Jewish Mentality -- Obsession and Religion According to Freud -- Anal Erotic Character -- Self-Imposed Repression -- The Love of Argument.
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Summary	This book focuses on the topic of 'circumventing custom' with special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden on the Sabbath. After examining the sources of Sabbath observance as set forth in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and rabbinical writings, some of the most salient forms of circumvention are described. Then drawing on Freud's insights as to the obsessive nature of religious ritual and his persuasive delineation of anal erotic character, an attempt is made to analyze such facets of Jewish ch.
Subject	Sabbath (Jewish law)
	Prohibited work (Jewish law)
	Jews -- Psychology.
	Judaism and psychoanalysis.
	RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
	Jews -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst00983339
	Judaism and psychoanalysis. (OCoLC)fst00984444
	Prohibited work (Jewish law) (OCoLC)fst01078760
	Sabbath (Jewish law) (OCoLC)fst01102949
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	Halacha.
	Sabbat.
Other Form:	Print version: Dundes, Alan. Shabbat elevator and other Sabbath subterfuges 0742516709 (DLC) 2001041927 (OCoLC)47364108
ISBN	9781461645603 (electronic bk.)
	1461645603 (electronic bk.)

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