A kosher diaper has been invented by a Williamsburg entrepreneur — the antidote to wet tushies on the Sabbath. After just four months on the market, it’s a hit with 2,500 moms in Brooklyn and other Orthodox communities. “I want to be a household name,” said Barry Moskowitz, 55, who deploys Velcro fasteners in his diaper design that four rabbis have endorsed. “I want to be the kosher diaper king.”
Observant Jews aren’t supposed to open regular disposable diapers with adhesive glue-laden fasteners during the Sabbath because the ripping motion is considered “work,” which is forbidden.
They must open up a stack of them beforehand — enough to make it through sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Exposing the glue to the air weakens it enough to eliminate the ripping motion — but fasteners don’t hold so well.
“Nobody was thinking about Orthodox moms,” said Moskowitz, whose Velcro diaper fasteners come apart with a “hooking” motion that’s not considered work.
Another example of Orthodox stupidity. The Jewish Sabbath has been a day of rest for thousands of years. The restrictions on work are found in Leviticus 23:3 "do no manner of work" on the Sabbath. The rabbis who wrote the Talmud established 39 categories of work that cannot be performed on the Sabbath according to the Hebrew Bible. These include cooking, washing clothes, constructing, repairing, writing, making a fire, cutting, fishing, and so on. However, the modern world has all produced some wonderful inventions to remove a burden from us. Driving a car means no longer having to ride a mule somewhere and it's less work than walking. Electricity produces light with no effort. This has created a dilemma for Orthodox Jews and their rabbis have banned driving and turning on lights on the Sabbath. Over the last century, rabbis have had to figure out how to apply the ancient laws to modern inventions. So no surprise that ripping open plastic is considered "work."
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