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Q&A: Using Electricity on the Sabbath

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Using Electricity on the Sabbath

Question

  • I wanted to ask what your opinion is about using electricity produced by the electric company on the Sabbath
  • Regarding desecration of God’s name
  • The prohibition on benefiting from labor done on the Sabbath
  • And how, if at all, this connects to your approach regarding secular Jews and commandments

Answer

It is not connected to my approach, because the production is not being done by a person whom I know to be an atheist. Beyond that, the production is done for me (for the public in general), and that is forbidden even if done by a non-Jew.
The accepted permission is because of public life-saving needs, for institutions like hospitals and the army. What we have here is a case of adding extra quantity to an already permitted activity. I seem to recall that in Minchat Shlomo there is a more fundamental leniency on this issue (and Rabbi Moshe Levi discussed it in Menuchat Ahavah), but I do not remember it at the moment.
There is no desecration of God’s name here, since there is a halakhic permission, and no one even imagines that it is forbidden.

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