Why do Jewish people walk alot?

I think on Saturdays they walk to temple and are not allowed to drive.

Yeah, it’s Shabbos from sundown on Friday night until sundown Saturday night, meaning that they can’t use anything electric or modern, or do any kind of work, but they are expected to show up at synagogue. You’ll notice they’re not carrying anything either :O

Yup. The more religious Jewish people, aka Hassidic or Orthodox, are not allowed to drive to Temple or on Hanukkah, ect..

Ya, orthodox jews, and some conservative jews walk to synagogue on saturdays. cuz one of the laws is that you arent supposed to drive on shabbat. personally, i do. but it just depends on how religious you are.

they are restricted from doing any labor on Saturday, so they just have plenty of labor time, that they spend on walking or couch laying )))

yeah! i also read it that way )))

Lol! Another good question :)

In some places we can carry because there’s something called an “eruv,” which is like a symbolic wall around a neighborhood. It’s kinda complicated. {:^)

On Hanukkah, driving is fine (except for the Sabbath during Hanukkah). But we don’t drive on the major holy days - which, you may be surprised to hear, Hannukah is not one of!

There are two parts to making the Sabbath day holy in one’s life: One part is all the things you refrain from doing - like driving, using electricity, cooking, writing, handling $, etc. That makes the day a time out from all the activities we do during the week to make sure the world works for us. The other part is all the things we do together with friends and family (light candles, sing, pray, drink wine, feast, hang out and talk, take pleasant walks outdoors, nap, learn Torah, sing, pray, and feast some more…) to celebrate the gift of the world as it is, without our having to remake it.

P.S. The first part, refraining - and, in fact, the whole idea of Shabat (Sabbath) - comes from where the Torah (Genesis 2:2-3) says that after creating the heavens and the earth in six days, G!d finished up the work by resting on the seventh. The Hebrew word for “rested” there is “Shavat.” We could say that on the seventh day, G!d created rest, stillness, renewal. That’s what we do on the Sabbath.

I guess it’s more complicated than I remember. I love learning more about it though, it’s always been interesting to me. I remember getting a O_O face when I accidentally wrote something once.

oh. wow. i learn something new everyday. thanks :)