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Shabbos App logo, featuring a "Shin" for The Sabbath
Developer(s)YidTec, Inc. The team includes Yitz Appel as President and staff of programmers including Yehuda Levi and Yossi Goldstein
Websitewww.shabbosapp.com

The Shabbos App is a proposed Android app claimed by its creators, YidTec, Inc. to enable Orthodox Jews, and all Jewish Sabbath-observers, to use a smartphone on the Jewish Sabbath.

Controversy

The app is highly controversial in Orthodox Jewish circles. Orthodox Judaism does not permit the use of a smartphone on the Sabbath. Jewish law prohibits activating or deactivating electrical devices on Shabbat.

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Special Shabbos App keypad

According to its creators, the Shabbos App resolves many of the problems related to using a smartphone on the Sabbath. However, no rabbinic authority has supported these claims. The Orthodox Union ran two opinion pieces against the app, on October 7, 2014, as well as another piece by Rabbi Ari Kahn. Another commentator focused on the benefit of just disconnecting for a few hours, rather than using the app.

Possible hoax

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, an expert in Jewish law with a background in technology, has claimed that the app is a hoax, intended to "mock attempts by serious, committed Jews to face the new challenges presented by modern technology".

See also

References

  1. "Shabbos App for Sabbath Texting Roils Rabbis". Popular Mechanics. October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  2. "New Shabbos App Creates Uproar Among Orthodox Circles". The Jewish Week. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "App lets Jewish kids text on Sabbath – and stay in the fold". The Times of Israel. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  4. ^ "Finally, Now You Can Text on Saturdays Thanks to New 'Shabbos App'". Shalom Life. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  5. "Will the Shabbos App Change Jewish Life, Raise Rabbinic Ire, or Both?". Jewish Business News. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  6. "Sacred texts: App aims to solve SMS-during-Sabbath problem". Haaretz. October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  7. ""Electricity and Shabbat", Rabbi Josh Flug 2008". Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  8. "Electricity on Shabbat", The Tzomet Institute
  9. "The Use of Electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tov", Rabbi Michael Broyde & Rabbi Howard Jachter, Journal of Halacha & Contemporary Society, No. XXI - Spring 91 - Pesach 5751
  10. "Electricity on Shabbat", Rabbi Aryeh Citron, chabad.org
  11. "New York Shabbos Texting App Stirs Controversy". vosizneias.com. September 30, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  12. "Throwing Our Esrogim at the Shabbos App". OU Life. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  13. "The Shabbat App". OU Torah. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  14. "The Shabbos App – A Psychological Threat". 5 Towns Jewish Times. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  15. "About the Author". Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  16. Yaakov Menken (October 6, 2014). "The "Shabbos App" is a Farce". Retrieved October 19, 2014.

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