Elevators that don't stop!
Sabbath elevator...it just keeps going and going and going...
Dear Citizens of the World,
One of the great wonders of traveling is to see first-hand how people live. Something that seems logical to one person would be odd for another.
Case in point: Sabbath elevators.
Sabbath (Friday evening to Saturday evening) has some basic rules to live by. One rule has to do with not using machines. But wait...what if you live on the 14th floor of a highrise building?...ahhh, Sabbath Elevators solve this problem through an ingenious loophole.
The trick consists in not touching anything; therefore, the elevator goes up and down for 24 hours while stopping and opening on every floor. Thus you can get on, touch nothing and wait for the elevator to stop on every floor until you get to your destination.
Saturday we plan to rest a bit and continue looking for an apartment in the city, have lunch downtown and then see the sunset on the beach. We will have to go down 14 floors to get out of the hotel, but we will take one of the two non-shabbat elevators.
Shabbat Shalom!
The United Statesian
