re: #282 LudwigVanQuixote

An eruv is an enclosure in which you are permitted to carry things on Shabbos. Otherwise carrying is prohibited. There are all sorts of laws as to what constitutes an eruv - I won’t even try to do a short form, because they are among the more complex sets of rules, however, the inside of your home is automatically an eruv.

Don’t you ever just want to throw your hands up and say “fuck it, too many weird rules”?

I mean, doesn’t it all get a bit silly, and you kind of come to the conclusion that much of it is extrapolation based on extrapolation?

I’m really not trying to poop on the faith at all, but it seems that (orthodox) Judaism is uniquely… what’s the word… bound by very specific and particular rules.