Hello. I am a Jew. I’m so training to be a Merchant Mariner. That’s 7 days a week, 8-14 hours a day, months on end. I’ll be missing major holidays and will obligatorily have to work on Shabbos. Kosher, especially proper Kosher, like needing properly cared for kitchens and utensils and avoiding cross contamination, is basically impossible. No candles no mezuzot, trimming the beard is often required. Etc etc etc. Most of this, some light kosher rules, shabbos, and holidays aside, don’t matter to me. But some stuff definitely does.
So, I guess this could optionally go out to any Jew homies who work long haul jobs like this. How do yall practice your Judaism? What kind of accommodations yall make? What are the challenges and if you address them, how? Have you changed your level of observance to be able to do the job? Do yall manage to pull it off anyways?
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