On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300 "Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> We're in the middle of Passover, and apparently observant Jews who are > computer users are facing a new problem: a famous Rabbi has just declared [1] > that during the week of Passover, observant Jews must only use software which > has been certified Kosher-for-Passover. > > How can software possibly contain chometz? And who eats software anyway? :-) > As it turns out, it's not just that you're not allowed to eat chometz on > Passover - you're not allowed even to "benefit" from it. Observant jews > already make sure that during Passover, their dogs eat kosher-for-passover Where can you get kosher for passover dog/cat food? I always have to stock up for my cats as the super markets just hide the pet food but never bring any alternatives. Not that I know why my cats would want to eat kosher anyway, but in case we run out ... > dogfood, their toilet paper is free of chometz, and the milk they drink comes > from cows that hadn't eaten chometz. The new decision is that using software > which benefited from chometz during Passover is disallowed. And how can > software possibly benefit from chometz? Easy - Napoleon once said that > "the army marches on its stomache". Likewise, programmers eat, and without > food, there can be no software. If programmers ate chometz on Passover, > and you use this software, you're benefiting from chometz on Passover, > which is not allowed. > > Here in the Israeli software industry we're in a unique position to produce > kosher-for-passover software, because most of our programmers eat only > kosher-for-passover food during passover. If we only make sure not to > accidentally mix-in pieces of chometz software into our kosher software. > We should especially avoid free software - because much of it was written by > gentiles who eat bread during Passover! > > Happy holiday! > > Nadav. > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
