ABSTRACT

Sandy Koufax refused to play ball on Yom Kippur. Bill Goldberg didn't wrestle on Rosh Hashanah. Usually, I try and keep my own 3000 years of glorious tradition separate from my work as a video game designer—as a Hasidic Jew, I duck out a little early on Friday afternoons and hope nobody notices. I'm also a creative, though, and sometimes you just can't separate your job from your holy soul or your guilty conscience. This story isn't exactly about the time that I had to figure out a weird and possibly supernatural game-related bug over Shabbos, but in its own way, it's exactly that.