Architecture kosher style
Year 2005 observing Sabbath, automatically:
From the Florida Sun Sentinal :
When drawing up plans for their new house, the Gurfinkels called on an architect, an interior designer and G-d.
Every room in their home in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was designed to make it easier for Marty; his wife, Candice; and their four young children to observe their Orthodox Jewish faith...
During Sabbath, when the family cannot use anything electrical, automatic timers wired throughout the house turn off lights, the refrigerator temporarily stops making ice cubes and the oven temperature stays warm but doesn't cook...
The Gurfinkels are a high-tech family most of the week: Rooms have individual keypads to control music and home entertainment systems as well as the temperature. With a flip of a switch, the 8-foot-diameter skylight above the rotunda foyer opens to the sky. A sophisticated security system protects the property.
But when the sun sets on Friday, the widescreen TVs go dark, the family's five computers shut down and appliances go off. Their Sub-Zero refrigerator is programmed to turn off its light as well as the ice maker and compressor. So, too, with a specially equipped Thermador oven, which stays at 170 degrees and overrides the safety feature found in other ovens that shuts off the heat after 24 hours.
There are 65 mezuzot in the Gurfinkel residence installed at an angle about two-thirds of the way up doorposts and archways. The one at the doorway to 5-year-old Jake's room is ceramic with a cowboy boot and a star with the Hebrew letter shin...
Well you needn't feel any jealousy after all they do need to sweat and make the effort with the "flip of a switch".
From the Florida Sun Sentinal :
When drawing up plans for their new house, the Gurfinkels called on an architect, an interior designer and G-d.
Every room in their home in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was designed to make it easier for Marty; his wife, Candice; and their four young children to observe their Orthodox Jewish faith...
During Sabbath, when the family cannot use anything electrical, automatic timers wired throughout the house turn off lights, the refrigerator temporarily stops making ice cubes and the oven temperature stays warm but doesn't cook...
The Gurfinkels are a high-tech family most of the week: Rooms have individual keypads to control music and home entertainment systems as well as the temperature. With a flip of a switch, the 8-foot-diameter skylight above the rotunda foyer opens to the sky. A sophisticated security system protects the property.
But when the sun sets on Friday, the widescreen TVs go dark, the family's five computers shut down and appliances go off. Their Sub-Zero refrigerator is programmed to turn off its light as well as the ice maker and compressor. So, too, with a specially equipped Thermador oven, which stays at 170 degrees and overrides the safety feature found in other ovens that shuts off the heat after 24 hours.
There are 65 mezuzot in the Gurfinkel residence installed at an angle about two-thirds of the way up doorposts and archways. The one at the doorway to 5-year-old Jake's room is ceramic with a cowboy boot and a star with the Hebrew letter shin...
Well you needn't feel any jealousy after all they do need to sweat and make the effort with the "flip of a switch".
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