Walking around my work I wander into an co-worker's office and we start chatting about nothing. It was at this time that I noticed on her calender an event printed (not written by her) on Christmas day called "Day of Obligation." Wondering what it was and what sort of event goes on Christmas that I have never heard about in my 25+ years of life and my studies of religion I inquired upon it. The owner of the calendar didn't know what it was but assumed that it was a "catholic thing" because it was a catholic calendar.
Not satisfied with just that I inquired another co-worker of mine, who's not a catholic but a strong christian nonetheless (which is close enough for me) and asked her. While she didn't know either she was curious enough to look it up for the both of us. So what we initially found was that the days of obligation were feasts or sorts. Apparently you eat on day's of obligation, something chinese people can totally dig since nothing is celebrated to us unless it's celebrated with food. It still didn't tell us why or what it is. Some more digging and we find this website.
What this website tells us (or at least what we got out of it) are that the days of obligation are the minimum requirements for being catholic. How great is that?! Here it is in their own words:
"We call them obligations because the Precepts of the Catholic Church tell us that celebrating those feast days is a part of the minimum level of commitment to the Catholic faith."
How awesome is that?! They even draw a line for you to tell you what the minimum balance is to have an account in the bank of their faith. FAITH. I guess it's not really a you have it or you don't kind of thing. Hey baby, is there a minimum balance for Judaism? Could you tell me what the absolute minimum I can do to still call myself a Jew? Oh and if you can make all of those days a day where I just have to eat, that'd be great. Thanks.
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Be born by a Jewish woman. haha. Seriously though. If your mother is Jewish are considered a jew. Now weather or not you would be a good jew is a completely different factor, but I guess this would be the minimum - to just survive birth.
Ammendment to Minimum requirements of being a Jew. Many of you may know this Him sure does, but many jews have a certain way of thinking.
Anybody more religious/observant than me is crazy. Anybody less religious/observant than me isn't really jewish.
So the minimum requirements of being a good jew are kind of in the mind of the beholder. Haha. As a child my mother told me many things I needed to do and if I didn't I wasn't a very good jew. Him could probably even cite a few for you as he's been hearing a bunch at my family gatherings from my mother and my other relatives.
"... survive birth."
Best minimum requirements ever. Strangely enough those are the exact same minimum requirements to be able to drink in china.
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