1) Comment / summarize on why Jacobs has such a hard time speaking biblically or avoiding Lashon Hara - "The Evil Tongue"
Jacobs has an extremely hard time avoiding Lashron Hara, because it includes many things that are frequently the center of conversations, are completely forbidden in the Bible. These include not lying, not complaining, and not gossiping. Jacobs even goes to say that one should avoid negative conversation all together!
2) What did Jacobs mean when he stated: "It is exactly what I was always most afraid of with religion. To embrace religion, you have to surrender some control."
Jacobs likes to be in control all the time of himself and what is happening around him. In religion though, he must give up some of his control and have blind faith in God. He must truly believe what in the bible and what it is teaching him to be truly religious, which would make his experiment worthwhile.
7) What is meant by the term Chasid Shote or Righteous Idiot? What does this address about religious belief?
A Righteous Idiot is someone who takes the meanings of the teachings of a religion too far. They take the teachings as far as to where they cherish them over human life. This means that if someone is dying, but the "idiot" is too caught up with whether it would be ok from a religious standpoint to even touch them.
Chapter 4 comment
In Chapter Four Jacobs finally understood what the Sabbath is about. He gets locked in his bathroom for four hours with nothing to do. But, after being in there for couple hours he begins to realize that the world is rushing past him while he is just sitting there, he can do nothing about it, but he is ok with it. He realizes that this is what the Sabbath should feel like, serene and peaceful, without the strain of city life, or the strain of any kind of life for that matter, just relaxation. He also realizes to accept what he has and appreciate it in this time.
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