nudges and tests

A friend who is converting to Judaism just faced her first job/Shabbat dilemma, and she is naturally frustrated by it. She needs the job, and the only interview time they would give her is on Shabbat, even though the job itself is Sunday-to-Thursday. She explained the problem and they wouldn't budge, so she's presumably lost the job. This prompted her to speculate about God's involvement in day-to-day life, and whether this was a test.

( and it prompted me to write lots of stuff, which isn't hard, after all :-)  )

Friday five

Oh all right. :-)
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