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[desh]

I'm not a bad Jew if I go to a friend's home to watch the Eagles game on Sunday (during the last day of holidays, as I observe Judaism, after 3.5 weeks of very frequent holdays), right? Especially if I keep the letter of the law (as I observe it) as to what can and can't be done on holidays, and all I'd be violating is the spirit of the law and of the holiday? Does your answer change if my reasoning is as much about being sick of the holidays as it is about not wanting to miss my third straight Eagles game?

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[desh]

Thanks...who is this? My usual anonymous commenter "A", or someone else?

[(Anonymous)]

ding, ding, ding...

[(Anonymous)]

I should add, my freshman year at college was the subway series. Someone got the staff to put the WS game on upstairs from where Hillel hakafot were going on. Eventually Hillel had the game turned off because the people watching the game were making more noise than the people dancing downstairs.

[desh]

Ha! I remember for I think the big 2004 Sox/Yanks ALCS (or other playoff games that fall), one of my friends' suites had a 13-inch TV on muted for all of a 3-day chag. It was annoying to crash on their couch and have the TV on, and it was weird to have meals right there, but when the game came on, it was quite the sight. At times at least a half-dozen dressed-up frum guys cheering and intently watching a tiny TV with no sound. (Kind of what I mean about the spirit of the chag.)