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A Shabbat Radio That Can't Be Paused
What if a podcast player had no controls at all? In this episode, we explore a listener's prototype for a Shabbat-friendly radio: a Raspberry Pi that pulls episodes from an RSS feed, plays them continuously, and lives inside a soundproofed box. Opening the lid is play. Closing it is pause. That's the entire interface. We dig into the halakhic reasoning behind the Shabbat elevator and the concept of grama — indirect causation — to understand why a device that never changes state based on your action might fit within Shabbat observance. Then we build it: the Pi Zero, the amplifier, the acoustic…
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