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Article: Being a Shomer Shabbat.(a trip to Israel)
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- December 1, 2000
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Tonight, I, an agnostic, am shomer shabbat, a guardian of Shabbat. I am on patrol, shmirah, with Yonni, my college buddy's Yemenite son-in-law, bumping along the periphery of Kfar Etzion, in a self-propelled jeep. Yonni demonstrated how the jeep was engineered to start automatically and maintain a constant speed, so that we would be shomer shabbat in the traditional sense. Yoram has a rifle tucked between the shift and his right leg, and the two-way radio crackling. Also crackling, more distantly, is the bombardment of Gilo, about 18 kilometers north, at the southern edge of Jerusalem. Between us and Jerusalem are the Minharot, the infamous two tunnels on the road to ...
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