Why Is Texting Not Allowed on Shabbat?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

wrong with texting on Shabbat today there's a lot of people that can't not text on Shabbat they have such desire they're so addicted they have to text on Shabbat what could be already wrong on texting on Shabbat we need to know what's the is it together we just don't do such a thing there are few involved over here first of all the of electricity electricity doesn't have to be electricity that's connected with the wire to the outlet rather it could be also something that's battery operated electricity some say it's say it's it's known electricity is Bon and felt that it's ass electricity because the really of electricity is when you have a bulb that's getting red hot and that is normally a regular bulb light bulb but when you have such a device that doesn't get red hot therefore the in that would not be electricity rather the ran the thean why because he learned that the is of turning the electricity turns it makes it like a fire because it has all the qualities of a fire gets very hot it gets red and so on and so forth it hits

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1. 0:00wrong with texting on Shabbat today there's a lot of people that can't not text on…
2. 0:30electricity doesn't have to be electricity that's connected with the wire to the outlet rather it…
3. 1:01ass electricity because the really of electricity is when you have a bulb that's getting red…
4. 1:33just like a fire does but such a device doesn't have that power so according to…
5. 2:03soon as you turn off your phone or computer so right away that disappears that is…
6. 2:34machine the something that otherwise it doesn't have anything doesn't have anything read there and you're…
7. 3:04discussion in a if Shabbat was it's completely allowed and therefore a person could do whatever…
8. 3:34there's surely no whatsoever to violate all [Music] the but we needed to learn that to…

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